A kind of olive-coloured velvet, and fine brocaded waistcoat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

A neat, olive-coloured species, somewhat resembling in form the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

I concentrated, trying to remember, and he said, ', slightly hairy trousers, olive-coloured sweater over a mustard shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROOF]

But those maybe-imagined looks from her … her skin, all soft-looking and olive-coloured … Something stopped me from going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Sights] Reference

Those olive-coloured slopes are of a glaucous tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone] Reference

A neat, olive-coloured species, somewhat resembling in form the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Sometimes, scanning an olive-coloured face, he would be minded of the Sea of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Stars] Reference

Well, that's mucked up his olive-coloured skin but that's nothing to what happens to poor Granny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Isle of Wight News] Reference

His vest is olive-coloured, and he has a brown mantle lined with crimson over the shoulders beneath his ruff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art] Reference

After a glassful of warm, olive-coloured vodka apiece — vodka of the tint to be seen only in the species of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Souls] Reference

One of the waiters handed round a dark, olive-coloured fruit of an oblong shape, about the size of a large pear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

Shahzad, 30, is seen in the video sitting on the ground in a black turban and olive-coloured vest, with an AK-47 next to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

We think of the view as seen from there, the olive-coloured gleam of the water, the ships and tugs speckled about the harbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference

It is a perfectly distinct species, and may easily be recognised by its form, its pellucidness, and its smooth olive-coloured epidermis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

“A cloth with an olive-coloured or a bottle-tinted spot in its pattern — anything in the nature of bilberry,” explained Chichikov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Souls] Reference

All around, the ground is olive-coloured with unblossomed heath, bright and golden here and there with the flowerets of the prickly gorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men] Reference

"She had never felt so deliciously happy and once more the tears unprompted began to flow down her cheeks, landing on his olive-coloured skin.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Isle of Wight News] Reference

Up at the window were the two little Napoleonic heads, with big, black eyes, strong chins, and dark hair streaked across wide, olive-coloured foreheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference

But, on the whole, perhaps it will be better to begin with the canal, which wears on its olive-coloured face the big white water-lily already chronicled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference

From here the Iron Mountain looked formidable, a fortress-like escarpment topped with an olive-coloured dome of bog still streaked and patched with spring snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Released from Miss Beaufort and Miss Letitia and now getting near to Charlotte, he flourished a specimen of glossy olive-coloured seaweed he had picked up himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanditon] Reference

She spoke like a Roman of the lowest class, was olive-coloured and wrinkled, and of her former beauty there remained only her very black eyes and hair that was still black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caesar or Nothing] Reference

This was that he had had some fashionable clothes made -- an olive-coloured frockcoat, smart trousers with straps at the sides, and a long wadded greatcoat which fitted him to perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth] Reference

I have met the Lieutenant-Governor frequently walking through the streets with an olive-coloured square-cut velveteen jacket and waistcoat; and a few days before I left York I beheld Mr. Justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

The damsels wear nothing but flowers and their compendious gala tunics; and when they plume themselves for the dance, they look like a band of olive-coloured Sylphides on the point of taking wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typee] Reference

Apparently she observed his interest, for as though by accident she moved some of the wrappings that hid her face, revealing a single soft and lustrous eye and a few square inches of olive-coloured cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Margaret] Reference

Peggy was ready to trot nearly as fast as he wished her down the lane to the place where he had left Paul; and no sooner did Harold come in sight of the olive-coloured rags, than he bawled out a loud 'Hurrah!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friarswood Post Office] Reference

Most of them were large and of the olive-coloured species; their size had probably prevented them from getting away earlier, but they were now floating off in great numbers, the weather being calm and tolerably dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference

I was also pleased to note that in the Clark’s shop, you can get olive-coloured boots and shoes, which makes for a nice change from brown or black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Leaf Mould and Other Fashion Disasters « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

A man in an olive-coloured parka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

His olive-coloured singlesuit was dusty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

This probably means olive-coloured, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference