Behind it is a great clump of dark-coloured trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

Two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War of the Worlds] Reference

The scape is somewhat dark-coloured, especially near the apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Near the centre of the sound is a small dark-coloured, rocky island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference

They left the scene in a getaway car, described as a dark-coloured Audi.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The species is widely umbilicated, and the peristome is usually dark-coloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

The rowers, plying their way in stealth, wore dark-coloured garments and hoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

Unusually dark-coloured magpies flying about a house, betokens grief to the inmates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Syme bit off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it briefly, and went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference

Cathedrals, are enriched by the beautifully polished columns of this dark-coloured limestone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference

In one corner stood a small square writing-table, of some dark-coloured wood, with several drawers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

The Frenchman next tossed us something wrapped in banana leaves, a thick, dark-coloured paste of some kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

While preaching, he wore, in general, a woollen tunic, with a dark-coloured mantle which fell down to his heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

A number of small dark-coloured patches which I recognise at once as one of our most beautiful fresh-water algæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

Lt Peens said witnesses to the shootings told police the shots were fired by the occupants of a dark-coloured car.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A large mass of hard dark-coloured, slaty-coloured rock in the centre of the two creeks with a passage on each side.    From Wordnik.com.  [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference

It should be so planted that its branches can rest on a dark-coloured stone; this will show up its fruit to advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

We were soon agreed that a dark-coloured tent was best, for several reasons: In the first place, as a relief to the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ The End of the Winter] Reference

His dark-coloured riding cloak, displaced from one shoulder, hung around one side of his person in the ample folds of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

At twelve miles changed my course to 29 degrees to examine three dark-coloured hills, where I think there will be springs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

The rock forming the banks is of a dark-coloured slate, polished by the force of the stream, so as to shine like black marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

Opposite the door hung a dark-coloured icon with a wax candle sticking to it and a bunch of everlastings hanging down from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resurrection] Reference

On the embroidered, lace-edged pillows lay a sort of withered, dark-coloured doll, with sharp nose and ruffled grey eyebrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jew and other stories] Reference

We then proceeded through some very bad spinifex, dark-coloured, long, hard and dry; we could scarcely get the horses to face it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

In both sides of the chest there was effusion to a considerable extent of a dark-coloured fluid, resembling porter in appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

This is exactly the appearance the river bed presents today (1913), strewn with large water-worn boulders of dark-coloured granite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813] Reference

In the dazzling glare a great bulbous mass of dark-coloured metal heaved slowly up out of the water midway between the two trawlers.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference

The calyptra is ultimately burst through, and in early spring the seta elongates rapidly, raising the dark-coloured capsule (fig. 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

On the south side of the chancel, in the easternmost bay, is a plain, dark-coloured marble coffin, without any inscription or ornament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

For halls and dining-rooms a plain dark-coloured linoleum, costing not less than two dollars a yard makes and inexpensive floor covering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference

And numberless dark-coloured men with the ends of their eyes red as copper, attired in clothes decked with gems, waited at the gate with those presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva] Reference

And numberless dark-coloured men with the ends of their, eyes red as copper, attired in clothes decked with gems, waited at the gate with those presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

She was dressed in a long dark-coloured robe of unusual fashion, bordered at the skirts, and on the stomacher, with a sort of white trimming resembling the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

Roland could observe that the front of it had formerly been considerably ornamented with carved work, in the same dark-coloured freestone of which it was built.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

I fetched a dark-coloured jacket and said, 'If anyone comes looking for the horse, say I had authority to take him, and I took him, and you don't know where he is.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Hilt]

On rockwork it should have a place, too, among the gems, being a neat and slow grower; its position should be near dark-coloured stones, where it will prove most telling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference