429 examples of tawny in sentences

why, friend, I am no tapster, to say, Anon, anon, sir: but leave you to molest me, goodman tawny-leaves, for fear (as the proverb says, leave is light)

For there are a few Indians remaining in the northern mountains, and specially at Arimasimple hamlet-folk, whom you can distinguish, at a glance, from mulattoes or quadroons, by the tawny complexion, and by a shape of eye, and length between the eye and the mouth, difficult to draw, impossible to describe, but discerned instantly by any one accustomed to observe human features.

Know, Angora, that there will be among those fancy cocks a genuine game-cock, lean, with tawny wing, the same who THE BLACKBIRD

" THE LILY-POND On this little pool where the sunbeams lie, This tawny gold ring where the shadows die, God doth enamel the blue of His sky.

Yours is gone to enlighten the tawny Hindoos.

The box was rectangular with an oval center; a thin piece of stone lay in the oval, tawny and flaked.

She followed him outside and picked up Jeremy, holding him, tawny and orange, against her white bathrobe as Joe drove away.

Beyond its boundary were vines, cut close in Spanish fashion, which perhaps the Fathers had taught in Mission days; and there were tall, pink-trunked eucalyptus trees from whose wood beautiful furniture could be made; then cities of green and golden temples again, in a desert-frame of tawny yellow.

Entirely stripped of apparel except that his loins were girt with a sheep-skin, in imitation of Saint John in the Wilderness, he bore upon his head a brazier of flaming coals, the lurid light of which falling upon his sable locks and tawny skin, gave him an unearthly appearance.

Does that distant roar of wheels in Piccadilly recall the rush and ripple of the Solway charging up its tawny sands with the white horses all abreast in a spring-tide?

The hair on the inside of the boot legs was thick and smooth, and the colors showed that one of the skins had been taken from the body of a black and white dog, and the other from that of a tawny brindle.

It fell on the bed of a torrent, which it displaced, and presently we saw its tawny-colored waters also spread themselves over the ravine, which was their couch.

Then he saw a dead deer on the ground and over it a great tawny creature.

They are Sikhs, from the north of India, the greatest fighters in the empire, men of large stature, military bearing and unswerving loyalty to the British crown, and when the Governor of Bombay drives in to his office in the morning or drives back again to his lovely home at night, his carriage is surrounded by a squad of those tawny warriors, who ride as well as they look.

"'We are the smell of the tawny grass, and the good tang of the wood-smoke.

They were once ripe, full-bodied Radicals, and now they are tawny Liberals, who have been bottled latebut bottled.

Sometimes we should hark back to 1820 port, a wine which I remember to have had a rich colour and a full refined flavour, and once I tasted the famous comet wine, 1811, which, however, had lost something of its nucleus, and only retained a certain tawny, nebulous tone.

As they reared them to a height of 6 or 8 feet it was possible to see their tawny head markings, their small glistening eyes, and their terrible array of teethby far the largest and most terrifying in the world.

She was a tall, strongly built girl of six-and-twenty, with a face of hard comeliness and magnificent tawny hair.

"Well, Arthur has at last compelled you to go to work," said she smilingly to the big cooper with the waving tawny hair and the keen, kind gray eyes.

Tawny: a dog of the Old West.

SEE Hinkle, Thomas C. HINKLE, THOMAS C. Tawny: a dog of the Old West.

Tawny: a dog of the Old West.

A rush and the great, tawny shape of Dexter reared in the moonlight and swept over the wall.

Down they all go in one simultaneous gush, roaring like lions rudely awakened, each of the tawny brood actually kicking up a dust at the first onset.

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