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Example sentences for "dark brown"

  • We saw however two pheasants of a dark brown colour, much larger than the same species of bird in the United States.

  • After dinner they resumed their march, and encamped on the north side of the river, after making seventeen miles; in crossing the mountains captain Lewis saw a flock of the black or dark brown pheasant, of which he killed one.

  • The cliff under which he lay is of a reddish brown colour, the rocks which have fallen from it are a dark brown flintstone.

  • The low grounds are narrow but well supplied with wood: the bluffs are principally of dark brown yellow, and some white clay with freestone in some places.

  • The anal region is dark brown, bordered above by a narrow transverse white stripe.

  • Median part of upper lip bare; rest of mouth bordered by one row of papillae; inner margin of upper beak forming continuous arch with lateral processes; dark brown markings on tail S.

  • A distinct white stripe is present on the outer edge of the tarsus and fifth toe; on the tarsus the white stripe is bordered below by dark brown.

  • A dark brown or black mark extends from the tympanum to a point above the insertion of the forearm; in some specimens this black mark is narrow or indistinct, but in most individuals it is quite evident.

  • The dorsum is variously marked with dark olive-green or dark brown spots or blotches (Pl.

  • It consists of the sulphate of mauveïne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color.

  • On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

  • Pigmentation is common; the face becomes dusky red, the rest of the body a dark brown shade.

  • The inside of the mouth, fauces, and oesophagus, is white and corroded, yellow or dark brown, and shrivelled.

  • Those of irritant poisoning with corrosion, and staining of a dark brown or yellow colour.

  • The coastal and northwestern provinces are, like the total series, more evenly divided between medium and dark brown.

  • Howells, with his Fijian series, is more generous with the darker designation; he designated 98 per cent as dark brown and 2 per cent light brown.

  • The only departure from this condition is an occasional instance of dark brown and a few instances of rufous shade.

  • The complexion of the natives was a dark brown or coffee colour.

  • The colour of their skin is a dark brown, the face slightly tattooed: both the men and women braid their hair into four plaits, which hang down upon the back of the head and temples.

  • This naphtha, however, is of the commonest kind, of a dark brown colour, and thicker than oil.

  • The margin often becomes split and wavy, sometimes drooping and revolute; disk pale or dark brown, more or less wrinkled toward the center; externally the cup is a scurvy-white.

  • The zones indicating the yearly growth are plainly marked, and the tubes are quite long and of a dark brown color.

  • The sporangia are subrotund or discoidal in form, dark brown, smooth, shining.

  • I boiled down to dryness a quart of it in a stone pipkin, which yielded to me a dark brown mass.

  • This agent will render the oil of a dark brown or black colour, if any metal, deleterious to health, be present.

  • The Radackers are tall and well made, of a dark brown complexion; their black hair is neatly bound up, and that of the women decorated with flowers and strings of muscle-shells.

  • The lower class of the present inhabitants of Chili is a mixed race, sprung from the union of Spaniards with Araucanian women: they are well grown, of a dark brown complexion, and have a lively red in their cheeks.

  • In color they range from pitch black to dark brown, having a resinous luster in the most compact specimens, and a silky luster in such specimens as show traces of vegetable fiber.

  • These are a dark brown in color with a greenish tinge.

  • The 5 cent stamp is printed in vermilion and the 10 cent in dark brown.

  • It is dark brown to black in colour, with a dull to glassy or resinous lustre, and resembles pitch in appearance.

  • The soft textures of the body are found to be dry and hard, and the muscles of a dark brown appearance.

  • The fruit is dark brown, long (3/4 to 1 in.

  • Janet combed, and brushed and arranged the shining dark brown hair.

  • The beak is blackish, and the membrane at the base black; the iris is dark brown, the circle of the eye white.

  • The iris is dark brown; the top of the head and the wing-coverts are of a deep green; the one with transverse and the other with oval spots of a beautiful sky blue.

  • The iris is dark brown; the shanks are eight inches in height, and of a bluish flesh colour.

  • In the female, which is smaller, the upper part of the body is of a dark brown, with dirty brown spots, which are scarcely visible.

  • The side of the head is dark brown, palest posteroventral to the orbit.

  • The lips are barred cream and dark brown in buckleyi.

  • The postocular region, encompassing the tympanum, is dark brown in most specimens.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also will; border incidents; dark ages; dark chamber; dark cloud; dark color; dark corner; dark eyes; dark figure; dark ground; dark hair; dark horse; dark lantern; dark line; dark lines; dark place; dark reddish; darker shade; darkness came; easily explained; excellent spirits; fellow citizens; had also; meet again; practical wisdom; sovereign grace