In color it was dull green, veined with ocher strata. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero Stone]
His resplendent ocher tan never fades, even in winter. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessary Man] Reference
He was still smiling, but his ocher eyes were serious. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
Reaching up, he drew back fingers stained with moaning ocher. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
Crimson carpeting with dramatic ocher spokes surrounded the desk. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
When Ernst moved, the warm air trailing him left an ocher trace image. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
To the right, canyon walls plunged roseate, ocher-banded, and cragged. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Nameless bits of dried animal organs occupied a row of fat ocher pots. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
There were ocher-colored ridges here and there, completely free of grass. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Just beyond the golden egg lay the motionless ocher hulk of the old queen. From Wordnik.com. [DragonFlight]
Don't keen it at home as you may have kids or ocher curious people around. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Large lacquerware trays, some painted, some inlaid, decorated the ocher walls. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
The one on Simon's right was ocher, with a black chevron dividing it across the middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The chugs were an ocher wave rolling down the sand, raising dust in a great khaki cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny's Road]
Painted with red ocher, Mungo Man is the oldest such ritually buried skeleton in the world. From Wordnik.com. [A Younger Mungo Man] Reference
He looked down, and then glanced up at me through his long black lashes, his ocher eyes scorching. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
Vestiges of dawn yet fanned out ocher in the east, and thin clouds scudded fast across the brittle sun. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Their beaks looked like wire cutters, dangerous, and each head was crowned by a flat cap of ocher shell. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny's Road]
Vilnis Therobon, wearing the ocher and purple of Public Welfare, arose and came to stand before the Panarch. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
You don't have to drive very far beyond the teaming beach resorts to find scores of ancient ocher-hued hill top towns. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Weiss: Why the Italians Get it Right When It Comes to Local Food] Reference
The small room, with its walls of ocher-colored steel, was filled mostly with the sort of men he classified as the Best. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
One of the best cap cements consists of resin, 5 ounces; beeswax, 1 ounce; red ocher or Venetian red in powder, 1 ounce. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Today, his eyes were a completely different color: a strange ocher, darker than butterscotch, but with the same golden tone. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
Mixing fresh tarball with varying degrees of Unleaded, the artist was able to create tints of rust and sepia, of cocoa and ocher. From Wordnik.com. [WORKING IN OILS: Pulitzer winner STEVE BREEN visits Gulf to create 'spill' cartoons out of BP's own crude] Reference
The blue shutters and pale ocher walls are peeling; plastic furniture sits unevenly in the unkempt shade of lemon and olive trees. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From France] Reference
The walls were painted in ocher, red and black in designs that were strange to my Gernian self yet familiar to Soldier's Boy's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Splendid baroque facades with figures and arches carved in warm, red-ocher sandstone have emerged from the tangle of trees and vines. From Wordnik.com. [A Vanished El Dorado] Reference
The presence of a marine shell pendant near the child's throat, animal bones, and a thick coating of red ocher suggest a ritual burial. From Wordnik.com. [Early Portuguese Burial] Reference
The walls were compacted natural earth, glue‑bonded and inlaid with crosswise metal strips to form an ocher and silver dome overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Nor Crystal Tears]
Wei Dao's face darkened to an angry ocher, but she obediently lowered her gaze and mumbled, "Please to forgive outburst, Merciful Husband.". From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
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