The slow-moving waters are tea-colored and acidic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

Her skin is tea-colored, parchmentlike, mostly hairless now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nondescript] Reference

A few more weeks passed and the tea-colored powder hardened.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

It splatters tea-colored rainwater all over the children's shirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

Maybe when everybody is tea-colored and all of us overweight, it will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jet Li versus Michelle Yeoh...a missed opportunity] Reference

The translucent stone turned out to be a 4.38 carat tea-colored diamond.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007] Reference

Outside the river rose cold and tea-colored beneath the ceaseless drizzle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference

We watched it a moment, before it plunged back into the tea-colored depths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running to Stand Still (Again)] Reference

After all, we're all in this together: red, blue, tea-colored or checked out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanie Gorman: Got Anger? Managing Political Rage for Our Children's Sake] Reference

Her body was hard and slender, the tea-colored legs crisscrossed with scratches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Butchers Hill]

Rudi freed a clavicle and chose an ice pick to work around a tea-colored rib cage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stalin's Ghost]

The light was tea-colored on the sugarcane fields and the oak trees along the Teche.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Rainbow] Reference

Streams of this region tend to be darker tea-colored and more acidic than those of 65d.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)] Reference

A few years from now, when a lot more folks in the US are tea-colored, maybe things will be better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black as Evil] Reference

The tea-colored river purls around his waders, thick and clingy, the way river water gets when it is cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference

With the dim lighting and the reddish cast from the tea-colored walls, the atmosphere was really quite pleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of a Geisha]

Wet forests, lakes, estuarine marshes, and tea-colored (tannic) streams are characteristic features of the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)] Reference

Above one, the acoustic tiles sported what looked like a tea-colored Rorschach ink-blot test, courtesy of a leaky roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Hater] Reference

He says tatamis absorb carbon dioxide and -- thanks to their soothing, tea-colored patina -- reduce stress by slowing brain waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Ta-Ta To Tatami?] Reference

Despite low tide, the brackish tea-colored water in Trustom Pond was very high, rushing loudly through the spillway into Card Pond.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I walk down to the ocean, after waking from a nightmare."] Reference

Along the sides of the raised road on which the bus traveled, the tea-colored water reached up to the bottom of corrugated-iron roofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waterworld] Reference

She imagined seeing the tea-colored stain, in the shape of a horse's rump with its tail flicked up, every day as she went about her life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference

In Larose, La., a town strung along a tea-colored bayou, the good, bad and puzzling effects of BP's money can literally be seen on people's skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil] Reference

He was wearing the Cloak of Lawful Governance over his augur's robe; it fell to his shoe-tops and was of the thickest tea-colored velvet, stiff with gold thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

I carried my first New England jack-o'-lantern out onto the bridge, held it over the abyss, and dropped it into the tea-colored, tannin-stained water ten or so feet below.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Belated Burial," Shaharrazad and Kalií, Second Best Rocks, and Arcana] Reference

The Southern Pine Plains and Hills have a different mix of vegetation and land use compared to 65d, and streams tend to be darker tea-colored and more acidic as one moves south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference

As he approached the table, he removed his tea-colored sunglasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

They waded through tea-colored water as deep as their waist and thighs in places.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

If you're lucky, you may be offered a taste of the house soju, a tea-colored cordial flavored with steeped fresh ginseng.    From Wordnik.com.  [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

There are the slow-moving, tea-colored waters of the Village Creek trail, the not-moving-at-all waters of Lady Bird Lake and Lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

It overlooks the eastern half of the Expo grounds, 2 square miles (5.28 square kilometers) straddling the tea-colored Huangpu River.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage] Reference

That process begins when the silt from the swirling, tea-colored waters begins to gather in mud flats that gradually rise above the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

The dinner was at three o'clock; but old lady Bowdoin wore her best gown of tea-colored satin, and James Bowdoin and his wife were there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pirate Gold] Reference