"Tip likes the buff-coloured one with the leg stripes.". From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
I had worked through my white and my buff-coloured outfits. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
He opened a blouse pocket and produced a buff-coloured form. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
Her hand fumbled beneath her apron and she produced a buff-coloured envelope. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
A waiter left buff-coloured menus on the gleaming wooden tables, went to get their drinks. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Godmother was driving herself — a low basket-carriage, harnessed to two buff-coloured ponies. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
William the gardener sat on the box in his buff-coloured coat with the plated buttons flicking the flies off. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
(VALSELLA), buff-coloured externally, very lustrous within, with a hinge the centre of which resembles a split pearl. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
The little boy's eyes shifted from Mitchell to Audley, and Audley's own eyes dropped to the plain buff-coloured envelope the child held to his chest. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
It is permanent when dry; on heating to 130° C. it loses water and gives the anhydrous dioxide as an unstable, pale buff-coloured powder, very sparingly soluble in water. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He stood there, looking at the buff-coloured front of the large, architecturally insignificant, but no doubt convenient family mansion in which his father and sister still lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
The choicest sorts are the buff-coloured, and those that are entirely black. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Finally, the smooth buff-coloured cores are throughly washed in running water. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
The cottage roofs are of shingle, buff-coloured and grey, with a silvery sheen. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
He threw a long buff-coloured overcoat across his arm, and went slowly downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Carnation] Reference
/Loughtan/, or buff-coloured wool of the island, which is not subjected to dyeing. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
The records, contained on six buff-coloured cards, were found in a skip some years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Yes, there was Franklin's pale buff-coloured countenance raised to hers, serene and smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin Kane] Reference
It's kind of buff-coloured ground, flowered all over with roses, deep-red roses, as nateral as life. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
Hideous coloured diagrams of the ravages of hideous diseases decorated the barren buff-coloured walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
Add some buff-coloured raffia ribbon to form tassels to the front or to wrap around the handle if there is one. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Up the river and well in sight of the hippopotami, a number of little buff-coloured animals dabbled in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
It's like that thing in the Turner Prize: a buff-coloured sculpture is revealed to be made of mashed cows 'brains. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"It's lucky in another way," he added, staring darkly at the buff-coloured wall that separated them from Number 13. From Wordnik.com. [Left Tackle Thayer] Reference
Across the room she could see the pale buff-coloured magazine, on the table where, five minutes ago, Mamma had laid it down. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference
His feet were effeminately small, and were clad in buff-coloured silk stockings, and little womanish bronze-leather slippers. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
The boy was clad in a grey suit of the finest cloth, laid down with silver lace, with a buff-coloured cloak of the same pattern. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
An example of quilting, attributed to the Island of Sicily about the year 1400, is described as being a ground of buff-coloured linen. From Wordnik.com. [Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them] Reference
Oh, how much more repulsive pleasure now is to him, that coarse, heavy, buff-coloured pleasure, which is understood by our pleasure-seekers, our. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference
The phrase drifted loose in my mind for a moment, and then I saw it in red lettering on a little buff-coloured pamphlet, to read which made one shiver and creep. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
The phrase drifted loose in my mind for a moment, and then I saw it in red lettering on a little buff-coloured pamphlet, to read which made one shiver and creep. From Wordnik.com. [The Locked Door] Reference
It was a remarkable document, written in a flowing, somewhat affected hand on a large sheet of buff-coloured notepaper, ornamented by a crimson facsimile address stamp. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Danger]
And she advised them to be content with the prettiest balls they could get, which were of nice smooth buff-coloured leather, very well made, and neither too soft nor too hard. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance] Reference
Eggs rough, buff-coloured. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
A light soil, with buff-coloured gravel in it.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
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