It was a man, clad all in close-fitting, earth-colored clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elf Queen of Shannara]

Instead I had a somewhat earth-colored soup, but no matter, it was delicious.    From Wordnik.com.  [poireau - French Word-A-Day] Reference

This common blackish or earth-colored bug is usually called the squash stink-bug.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference

Now she was all earth-colored shell, a shallow butte sparsely covered with nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

Their homes are beautiful little rondavels and they even paint them with earth-colored clays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

The rough, earth-colored container hides in the back, close-mouthed, keeping its own counsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

They had seen more clusters of the low, earth-colored tents in reaching their present vantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

Is that earth-colored brick waiting for its glassy marble cladding, or is it crumbling back into the condition of soil?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naipaul's Book of the World] Reference

Inside a typical unit, conditions are ripe for a kegger: earth-colored carpeting, lots of linoleum, Nixon-era bathrooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [PSST! WANNA HOT DEAL?] Reference

They wore earth-colored clothes-it was only their movement that had drawn his attention-and they climbed with careful grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emperor of Ansalon]

Attentive eyes, eardrums tuned to the elusive sound of the diversion of resources, and brown, almost earth-colored, uniforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Where Looting the State Is a Means of Survival] Reference

Beautiful earth-colored thangka paintings adorn most of the monastery walls, which unfortunately could stand some more diligent upkeep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photo Journeys: Alison Wright: June 2008] Reference

Martin Pakledinaz's minimal, movable set suggests rough-hewn ceiling beams; his earth-colored costumes, generic dancewear with a folkloric touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Francisco's Anniversary Trip] Reference

"Mellachior spends most of his winters asleep," Pella had remarked, tapping the glass gently; the shinning earth-colored coils within did not shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

Too beautiful she was for a dugout, true, and yet the dusky brownish gray of the earth-colored walls served in a way to set off her rich dark coloring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of the Wind] Reference

The Aiel camp covered the hills that hid Cairhien, low earth-colored tents filling the space between the few trees left standing this close to the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

His tracer, with the brass dragon scale imprisoned within, bubbled and blurped, putting out no more than a tiny questing pinna of odorous earth-colored fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Krynn]

The large earth-colored pavilions of the Firvulag nobility were here, awnings and flies fringed in gold and silver, and embroidered designs ornamenting walls and roof panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

George Speake, a retired aerospace executive, and his wife, Anita Swanson, a motivational author and speaker, completed this earth-colored plaster and reddish-brown metal home in 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Ceiling, Clear Lake] Reference

Tegger settled himself cross-legged on the roof edge of a plot of earth, slumping within his earth-colored poncho, letting the rain wash over him like just another lump on the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ringworld Throne]

As it's a mere sliver of a peninsula formed at the confluence of the earth-colored Mekong and Khan rivers, one can traverse the length of the main historical area of Luang Prabang in about an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mekong's Last Undiscovered City] Reference

The patch of sandy, weedy ground immediately in front of his place was cluttered with ugly, prickly cactus stuck in squat, gaudy ceramic pots and stunted little elves and gnomes made of earth-colored clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tek Money]

Cyclona looked at him long and earnestly, at the strong, fine lines of sadness brought beautifully out by this unexpected high-light of the skies, accentuated Rembrandt-like, against the darkness of the earth-colored hole in the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of the Wind] Reference

Out of all the trenches joyous cheers of thanks rise for the fearless musicmaster who, amid the raging fire, through horns and trumpets, wrapped in earth-colored gray, leads his band in blowing marches and battle songs and songs of dancing into the ears of the Frenchmen, harkening with pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

The shower-sodden earth, the earth-colored streams, 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Peasant Song] Reference

The shower-stricken earth, the earth-colored streams, 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1417. In Leinster by Louise Imogen Guiney. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Day activities for the students was making paper and using it to make beautiful, earth-colored necklaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photos - DesMoinesRegister.com] Reference

From being black it can become instantly white; from being an earth-colored brown it can fade into a delightful water-colored green.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier, a novel] Reference

It is because we dress in earth-colored clothes, and when we shake hands with people, we hold their hands a second too long and gaze into their faces and say earnestly.    From Wordnik.com.  [uuworld.org: latest stories] Reference

They wear earth-colored canvas jackets and earth-colored knickerbockers ending in crimson stockings, and I say to myself that they are the most unpleasant-looking band of ruffians I have ever beheld.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opinions of a Philosopher] Reference

Mill Farm; and when she appeared at the dock at the appointed hour, it proved that she was escorted by Judge Trent, rather grim of visage as he shot out sharp glances from beneath the earth-colored cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

Gusts plastered Rand al’Thor’s cloak to his back, whipped the earth-colored wool around his legs, then streamed it out behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quakers in Spain] Reference