A thin blouse and exiguous shorts showed most of her tawny-brown skin to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
The Paonese are a homogeneous people, of medium stature, fair-skinned with hair-color ranging from tawny-brown to brown-black, with no great variations of feature or physique. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
The museum was an anniversary site Nawin and his wife had in fact gone to on a number of occasions to commemorate their youthful meetings there, and to see the freakish human pottery of tawny-brown or tanned ochre that had been of such comfort to them as teenagers. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Her small, tawny-brown eyes concentrated in a point of vivid, sightless fury, like a tiger's. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
Female king eiders are tawny-brown, barred with dusky brown chevrons (` V 'marks) that can be similar in color to common eiders. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The color varies greatly, from buff to dull reddish, to reddish-brown, tawny-brown, often yellowish over a portion of the cap, usually paler on the margin. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Page 126 figure, the rags, with the tawny-brown skin showing through, the maimed foot, and the tears which the little beggar staunchly refused to let fall. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee] Reference
The male is tawny-brown over the back, sides, head, and thighs; this changes to a darker hue in winter, and in very old animals it is nearly black; hence the name "black elk," which is given in some districts to the moose. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference
He had seen Mr Gainsborough once, and retained a picture of a small ineffectual man with a ragged tawny-brown beard and a big soft felt hat, who had an air of being very timid, rather pressed for money, and endowed with a kind heart. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
A pretty cross-saddle riding costume of tawny-brown corduroy that matched the glints in her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Stella's tawny-brown eyes twinkled. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of Space] Reference
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