The cinnamon-coloured boy picked up the money on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
A cinnamon-coloured Croesus in the group spoke softly into the clamour. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Dejectedly he drove, in fancy, along the glaring, treeless roads, inches deep in cinnamon-coloured dust. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Tatyana Ilyinitchna Ovsyanikov was a tall woman, dignified and taciturn, always dressed in a cinnamon-coloured silk dress. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
They accessed this by means of a tunnel-like opening in the cinnamon-coloured brick buildings that comprised the housing estate itself. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
Voinitsin led me up to a little man, with a high tuft of hair on his forehead and moustaches, in a cinnamon-coloured frock-coat and striped cravat. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
The turtle-dove, one minute so swift and intent in its flight, now fell languidly to earth, followed by a swirl of soft, cinnamon-coloured feathers. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
It was superior to any door we had "wakened" that afternoon -- made of pale, cinnamon-coloured wood, and immensely wide, carved up above and brightened with great fork-like hinges and nail-heads as large as pennies. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Of the above-mentioned cinnamon-coloured house a local official had wittily observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmaster] Reference
Small cinnamon-coloured cattle are to be got here, but horses there are practically none. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
Country women, in picturesque cinnamon-coloured skirts, moved gravely among the citizens. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
They were large and grey, thickly covered by yellowish-grey and cinnamon-coloured feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
It is all pine-wood – new, bright, fragrant, cinnamon-coloured pine-wood, shining like gold. From Wordnik.com. [Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys] Reference
Ilyinitchna Ovsyanikov was a tall woman, dignified and taciturn, always dressed in a cinnamon-coloured silk dress. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I] Reference
Anton Prokofievitch Pupopuz, who goes about to this hour in his cinnamon-coloured surtout with blue sleeves and dines every. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
Jogglebury sat silent for a time, examining his feet attentively as if to see they were pairs, and scrutinizing the bags of his cinnamon-coloured trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
I took notice of their light handsome forms, their smooth slender limbs, their cinnamon-coloured backs, and white bellies, with the band of chestnut along each side. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Pulling on his cinnamon-coloured, bear-lined overcoat as he went, he had just stepped thoughtfully into the street when he collided with a gentleman dressed in a similar coat and an ear-lappeted fur cap. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
American aborigines are the copper-coloured or rather the cinnamon-coloured complexion, along with the high cheek-bones and small deep-set eyes, the straight black hair and absence or scantiness of beard. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
The hours for relieving guard were intimated by the shrill Aztec whistle, while bodies of men might be seen moving behind the flame, which threw a still ruddier glow over the cinnamon-coloured skins of the warriors. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes] Reference
His estate is under the superintendence of an agent, a peasant with a beard that covers the whole of his sheepskin; his household is managed by a stingy, wrinkled old woman, whose face is always tied up in a cinnamon-coloured handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I] Reference
Heavy expensive furniture stood in the ordinary stiff arrangement along the walls, which were covered with cinnamon-coloured paper with gold flowers on it; Odintsov had ordered the furniture from Moscow through a friend and agent of his, a spirit merchant. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XVI] Reference
On his wig was placed a white hat cocked jauntily at one side with a red feather streaming round it, and he wore a coat of cinnamon-coloured cloth with silver at the neck and pockets, which was still very handsome, though it bore signs of having been frayed and mended more than once. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
A stiff, formally-cut coat of cinnamon-coloured cloth, with rows of plate buttons, each of the size of a crown piece, on the sleeves, pockets, and skirts, reached the middle of his legs; and his costume was completed by the silver-hilted sword at his side, and the laced hat under his left arm. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference
AT the district town of N. in the cinnamon-coloured government house in which the Zemstvo, the sessional meetings of the justices of the peace, the Rural Board, the Liquor Board, the Military Board, and many others sit by turns, the Circuit Court was in session on one of the dull days of autumn. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmaster] Reference
A beard that covers the whole of his sheepskin; his household is managed by a stingy, wrinkled old woman, whose face is always tied up in a cinnamon-coloured handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
A singular contrast with the magnificence of the embellishment and the fineness of the one ruffle suffered by our modern Hyperion to make its appearance beneath his cinnamon-coloured coatsleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
The animal was certainly not cinnamon-coloured. From Wordnik.com. [The She-Wolf] Reference
He was a large cinnamon-coloured grizzly. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
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