It is of a murrey or chocolate colour, and forms cool tints of a purple hue with white. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
What would her mother say if she lost the murrey skirt, which had cost six shillings at. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
The Serjeant thereupon departed, and doffing his black robe assumed a parti-coloured robe of black and murrey. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
She was poorly dressed in a gown of murrey homespun, whose clumsy folds did nothing to disguise the signs of pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
Not brilliant, but rich and powerful, this purple varies in hue according to the mode of manufacture from deep crimson to murrey or dark purple: it also differs in degrees of transparency. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
She wore a murrey-coloured gown with a little lace collar. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
His hair fell in curls on either side from beneath a splendid murrey. From Wordnik.com. [The Panchronicon] Reference
Is that lovely murrey-coloured stuff in the cut-glass jar quince marmalade?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Daniel's livery, murrey and blue, which gave the greater show to their array. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
"And here my poor Cate must go in her old murrey-coloured petticoat," said my lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart's Highway] Reference
He, again, light me here -- I had on a gold cable hat-band, then new come up, about a murrey French hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
What would her mother say if she lost the murrey skirt, which had cost six shillings at Bridlington fair?. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
Murray is too common to be referred entirely to the Scottish name and is sometimes for murrey, dark red (Fr. mûre, mulberry). From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
I'd fain have a brown or a good dark murrey 'd serve me -- somewhat that should not show dirt, and may be trusted to wear well. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughters] Reference
The Mayor and Aldermen, dressed in scarlet, with collars and chains, with 400 citizens in 'murrey,' all well mounted, rode out to meet the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of London] Reference
She visited all her favorite trees, -- the purple ash, the vivid, passionate maples, the oaks in their sober richness of murrey and crimson. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Hildegarde] Reference
Maybe TNA can pick her up instead ... shakir: ohh my i am crazy about linda murrey i am in luv with her n find her to bea will be my favourit beautiful n great body. From Wordnik.com. [femalemuscle by lori braun] Reference
He wore a murrey-coloured plush jerkin, stained with the overflowings of the tankard, and much the worse for wear, and unbuttoned at bottom for the ease of his enormous paunch. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
A handful of archers are but now come to the ferry; murrey and blue is their wear; they are our butts -- they shall all taste arrows -- no man of them shall struggle through this wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
Just then a country gentleman, whose murrey coat has a certain country cut, while his complexion breathes of hay-fields and hedge sides, is introduced, gazes round, and steps up to her. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
Then came the chancellor of the Order, in his robe of murrey-coloured velvet lined with sarcenet, with a badge on the shoulder consisting of a gold rose, enclosed in a garter wrought with pearls of damask gold. From Wordnik.com. [Windsor Castle] Reference
Daniel's establishment, and attired in his livery of murrey and blue, partly nondescript strangers attracted to the town by greed, and received by the knight through policy, and because it was the fashion of the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
A murrey-colored velvet coat, somewhat chafed, completed the costume of this beggar Brummell, this mendicant macaroni!. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
On Richard’s return to London after putting down his enemies, he was welcomed by over 400 members of the various civic companies, who rode out to meet him in gowns of murrey. (. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
She in the murrey-coloured mantle -- she that broke her fast with water, rogue -- where is she? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
I would have moreover a cendall of bean-flower colour, and a piece or twain of say -- murrey or sop-in-wine. ". From Wordnik.com. [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference
"I swear it -- murrey and blue!". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Arrow] Reference
"musterdevilers," accompanied by more than 600 members of the companies in gowns of bright murrey. (. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
And add befide a murrey-colour 'd vefl. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
A murrey squirrel eyed. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1918-19] Reference
A skirt of russet murrey, and a bright brown hat?. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
"And the murrey right above. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
The murrey-brown weathers to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Kormáks saga. English] Reference
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