To the right was the stony, furious, lion-like river, tawny-coloured here, and the slope up beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Doll] Reference

He was then about thirty years of age, a fine, handsome man, tall and strong, wearing a full and flowing tawny-coloured beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

And here I am reluctantly compelled to reprove the white and tawny-coloured inhabitants of St. Kitts for a breach of good manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

After a skirmish with some tawny-coloured Hottentots the explorers sailed on, putting "their trust in the Lord to double the Cape.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

His short beard was trimmed to a point, his moustache turned upwards at the ends, on his hands were gloves of tawny-coloured leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

The Serengeti-type lions that we are most familiar with live in prides of about 6 females defended by coalitions of 2-4 males, and these males have thick, tawny-coloured manes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant killers: macropredation in lions] Reference

Da Gama gives the following description of them in his diary: 'The inhabitants of this country are tawny-coloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Trade: Zuma seeks stronger ties with India] Reference

She had a tame white and tawny-coloured owl, which we fed every night, and sometimes brought into the drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference

The shield of the order shows the founder's arm in a tawny-coloured cowl grasping a golden crutch-shaped crozier on a blue ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

The balcony on which the girls were seated opened out of a room richly hung with tawny-coloured Flanders leather stamped with gold foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Showing the Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat. Book VII] Reference

The tawny-coloured, sandy, track is difficult to follow in the dark, and there are posts set up at intervals on the skirts of the way for travellers 'guidance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

Mr Farquhar then came in, and the question was referred to him; he laughed and told him that painters were a species of panther, not spotted, but tawny-coloured, and at times very dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlers in Canada] Reference

Laralde was a short, broad-shouldered man, with bow legs and bushy grey whiskers; he was called by his familiars Lechuza (owl) on account of his immense, round, tawny-coloured eyes, which had a tremendous staring power in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purple Land] Reference

If Mac was a "bit of a Jehu," he certainly was a "dead homer," for after miles of scrub and grass and timber, we came out at our evening camp at the Bitter Springs, to find the Head Stockman there, with his faithful, tawny-coloured shadow, "Old Sool em," beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [We of the Never-Never] Reference

He pushed on rudely -- half-smiling in contempt, half-frowning in revenge, as he looked from side to side; and his long, matted, light hair, tawny-coloured moustache, and brawny front, contrasted strongly with the dark eyes, raven locks, and slender frames of the Italians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

Arriving at the factory, he dressed himself in a tawny-coloured cloak coming down to his feet, and underneath a short tunic of blue satin, with white buskins, and on his head he wore a blue velvet cap, having a white feather in it, fastened with a jewel; a richly enamelled collar on his shoulders, and a sash with a handsome dagger completed his costume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

A convenient car, built of curiously carved cedar, and borne by four enormous tawny-coloured owls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Infernal Marriage] Reference

He had soft, tawny-coloured fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and — let us add — dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference