It was covered in velvet-soft butter-colored leather. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
It has a lovely, butter-colored paste with blue veining. From Wordnik.com. [Say Cheese: 3 from the Pyrenees] Reference
This is a fresh cheese, butter-colored, salty and creamy-crumbly. From Wordnik.com. [Say Cheese: The Keswick manner] Reference
The low sun cast hot bars of butter-colored light through the windows. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
At this time of day the sun bathed the pale walls with butter-colored light. From Wordnik.com. [Texas! Lucky]
He soaks a piece of the butter-colored cane in warm water for a warm tone, he says. From Wordnik.com. [Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First] Reference
The butter-colored marble of the very walls and floor seemed warm rather than cool. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
One was a woman in her middle fifties with a chrysanthemum head of improbably butter-colored hair. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Avignon was a compact city, encircled by butter-colored walls fortified with red cone-roofed towers. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
I'd dressed in a new butter-colored cashmere V-neck, tight jeans, and a waist-skimming tweed jacket. From Wordnik.com. [The 6th Target]
Then I bought myself my first pair of Timberland boots, some butter-colored ones from the store in Getty Square. From Wordnik.com. [EARL -The Autobiography of DMX]
It's sunny, with butter-colored hardwood floors and a kitchen full of antique cabinets and antiquated appliances. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traveler's Wife]
I was wearing a black hoody, black jeans, and a pair of butter-colored Tims with some black shades -- straight business. From Wordnik.com. [EARL -The Autobiography of DMX]
The rooms are furnished in a clean, traditional style, with delicate four-poster mahogany beds and butter-colored wallpaper. From Wordnik.com. [Swing Low Country] Reference
The full gathers of her toasted butter-colored skirts and overblouse were obvious through the opening part of a Brinkley coat. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
I didn't care whether she were red-cheeked and bouncing or not, but for obvious reasons I didn't want her hair to be butter-colored. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
In contrast to the strength of the butter-colored sunlight on the lawn, the shade of the grotto where Joanna sat was like dark indigo. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
I've traveled on boats hunting thick, reddish peanut butter-colored crude that slowly washed towards the coastal marshes of southern Louisiana. From Wordnik.com. [Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf] Reference
He got an impression of butter-colored hair, shoulders burled with muscles, and a face under moonlight that was startlingly like their father's. From Wordnik.com. [Harpist in the Wind]
Sitting in her butter-colored office outside Baltimore, therapist Wendy Iglehart could see from her clients what she knew to be true from her own life: Divorce ravages people. From Wordnik.com. [When breaking up is hard to do, she steps in] Reference
The other shook his butter-colored skull as if he had suddenly received. From Wordnik.com. [His Excellency the Minister] Reference
There was an officer with them, a proud, ugly man with a butter-colored mustache. From Wordnik.com. [Some Historians] Reference
To her had come Sami, appearing out of nothing as by magic, his butter-colored face aglow with joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
We could distinguish plainly the white goose across his back, in contrast to his butter-colored coat and great bushy tail. From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
There was not much of it, but still, he was not absolutely bald, but quite bald enough to allow his butter-colored pate to show. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories] Reference
Two pink apartment buildings and a butter-colored one are now drug dens, their windows covered in wood slabs and doors flung open. From Wordnik.com. [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
When the butter-colored school with crimson trim finally takes its place among Korphe's stone and mud huts, Mortenson refuses to stop there. From Wordnik.com. [ALL THINGS PAKISTAN] Reference
Lovely Theresa Duncan liked to go for drives along the Pacific Coast Highway in her butter-colored Alfa Romeo Spider, listening to Steely Dan. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Suicides] Reference
Its beautiful spikes of butter-colored cornucopias, apparently holding the yolk of a diminutive egg, emit a cheesy odor, suggesting a close dairy. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Andalusian, and who exhibits a face and paunch fit for Silenus, a butter-colored pate, a deceitful, libertine smile upon his big, heavy lips, -- in short, a philosopher!. From Wordnik.com. [Analytical Studies] Reference
During my stay in the beautiful butter-colored palace that is now a hotel, I went round the museums, galleries, and universities, most if not all of which are free to the public. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2] Reference
You could sell margarine, but it couldn’t be butter-colored right off the bat. From Wordnik.com. [May – 2010 – The Bleat.] Reference
• most rooms are butter-colored (owner-chosen), but behind the shell armoire is an aqua that Laurel mixed herself. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
He wore butter-colored gloves, and the skirts of his coat were pleated full all around, and stood out like a ballet girl’s. From Wordnik.com. [The Ways of Men] Reference
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