Now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts. From LearnThat.org. [John Milton (1608-1674), English poet, from Paradise Lost.]
Two are "tawny" and two are grey and white, like their ma. From Wordnik.com. [MI, 10 Cent Refund] Reference
Far adown in tawny fallows and bracken dells. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
Branwell was rather a handsome boy, with "tawny" hair, to use Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1] Reference
There it lies -- a little, tawny, crystalline patch. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
And just as our feet were touching the tawny sands. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
A spark of tawny fire had leaped to life in its hazel depth. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The red blood spouted, and the huge body dropped in a tawny heap. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Men say that so thick is his tawny hide that no weapon can injure him. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
To the boy, they looked like the hides of some tawny sheep that he knew. From Wordnik.com. [Golgotha] Reference
The young, tawny goddess chirped and extended a very slim bangled wrist. From Wordnik.com. [MOTHS] Reference
Miranda, a longtime detective, with tawny cat eyes, says, The wife is right. From Wordnik.com. [A Life And Death in CCTV] Reference
This gentleman with the tawny beard, and erect, alert, military bearing, was. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
His two tawny-haired children stared at me from picture frames on his credenza. From Wordnik.com. [Seasonal Discord] Reference
Looking for a tawny beagle with bottomless eyes and the can-do attitude of Lassie?. From Wordnik.com. [Wendy Diamond: Pets vs. Kids: Are You Barking Up the Wrong Parenthood Tree?] Reference
Her glance was tawny and aflame with anger and excitement, furious upon the prostrate Barto. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Grandchamp gravely advanced his tawny face and his gray hair to the foot of the bed to listen. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A head covered with a thick growth of tawny hair, and a face almost hidden in a big tawny, bushy beard. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
Such labors as theirs deserved a peaceful old age, and the enduring gratitude of their tawny protégés. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
When Philip did a doubletake, however, the ear was back to normal size and reposing on its owner's tawny cheek. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
Suddenly she saw the tawny side of the panther directly before her -- seemingly it was at the end of the rifle barrel. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
The brothers and sister returned unable, after urgent and loving entreaties, to win back their tawny sister from her wilds. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
In fact, the mosque is a building strongly evocative of its own time, with its sober, bankerly facade of tawny pink granite. From Wordnik.com. [A Minaret Over Manhattan] Reference
There was no mistaking their identity; their gold stripes and white duck trousers appeared distinctly against the tawny marsh. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Amongst these was a man of five or eight-and-twenty, whose tawny complexion, jet-black eyes, and crisp curling hair, told of an. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Then the tawny body of Mirza, the mother, rose from the straw and came slowly and apologetically toward me with her head lowered. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
A young black shepherd dog with tawny points and the name of Sambo followed the wagon or explored the fields and woods it passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
After a skirmish with some tawny-coloured Hottentots the explorers sailed on, putting "their trust in the Lord to double the Cape.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The pond itself was beautiful and refreshing to my soul, after such long and exclusive familiarity with our tawny and sluggish river. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Every note of the well-known airs fell upon his heart like a corrosive tear, and Marsa, in all her dark, tawny beauty, rose before him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The Queen sat upon her throne, but the King walked up and down in front of his and tugged at his tawny beard, and he looked very fierce. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
From a little, tawny cub, when he had played and frolicked with his brother and sister, he had given proofs of his extraordinary strength. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
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