Here and there the vivid green of Winter wheat struck a note of Spring amid all the mauves and ochres of dying things.

A broad band of yellow ochre across his forehead and a tomahawk at his belt added to the strange inconsistency of his appearance.

The Maoris of New Zealand besmear themselves with grease and red ochre as a defence against the sand-flies.

Scarce twenty yards apart, neither was conscious, for the moment, of the other's existence; Simon, indeed, being in spirit some seven thousand feet above the level of the sea, putting more ochre into the virgin snow that crested his topmost peak, and Dick deftly dropping a fly, the size of a pen-wiper, over the nose of a fifteen-pounder that had already once risen to the gaudy lure.

The Custom House in Bombay has the wall painted with dark red ochre to a height of three or four feet from the ground.