Lyall Of thee did I dream, while spears between us were quivering-- and sooth, of our blood full deep had drunken the tawny shafts!
The brown or tawny owl (Syrnium aluco) is one of these.
Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand, The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam, And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue; O sun of noon refulgent!
He sat still a long time, to all appearance watching the little blue butterflies playing round the red and tawny roses.
The girl's dress was tawny brown, her hair and hat too of the same hue, and the pursuing sunlight endowed her with a hazy splendour.
I pulled like a madman; and that great man, with his bare arms crossed, was like a huge, tawny bull sitting there opposite me.
Barbara was sleeping with her cheek on her hand, and her tawny hair, gathered back, streaming over the pillow.
Sunk into the recesses of a marvellous chair, with huge arms of tawny leather, he listened and spoke drowsily.
Along the line from Poitiers to Rouen were trees of flaming tawny and russet tints.
The sky was a brown colour; the earth a deeper brown, like the skins oftawny lions.
Presently they were aware of the cry of a Cat, and its miaulings; and the patch of red unguent on the floor parted and they beheld a tawny Cat with an arched back.
This fades out as vegetation would at certain seasons to faint blue-green, but in some places to a tawny brown.
Simply because he is nearly as long as the dull brownish cuckoo and has a brown back, though of quite a different tawny shade, some boys and girls say it is difficult to tell the two birds apart.
Take a good look at its tawnycoat and lightly spotted cream buff breast before it goes away to hide.
From the wild, tawny Indian to the refined, blond Englishman, a man for me is worthy of respect according to his honesty and feelings, no matter to what country or race he belongs or what religion he professes.
Only this thin hedge shut them off from the plains-shorn wheat-lands of autumn, a hundred acres to a field, prickly and gray near-by but in the blurred distance like tawny velvet stretched over dipping hillocks.
But the wheat and grass were sleek velvet under the sunset; the prairie clouds were tawny gold; and she swung happily into Main Street.
She was part of these lakes and tawny wheat-fields.
This wild cat is of a sandy-grey or tawny colour, and with more or less indistinct markings of the tabby character.
My cousin, Miss Goodloe," said Mrs. Dillon, and I sensed a mass of tawny hair under the motor veil and looked into a pair of blue eyes set wide apart beneath a broad white brow.
Her tawny hair made sunshine in the chamber, her cool hands, in their ministration, had the caress of breezes.
For it was designed in every detail to frame the picture, to set off not only that figure but also the cream of her skin, the tawny hair, even those firm, plump hands.
Will you not tie up with a wreath your tawny coiled locks?
What a pity you did not dower your daughter with part of it, instead of this tawny mane of mine, which is a constant affront to my fastidious artistic instincts.
A brief silence ensued, during which the magistrate pulled at the corner of his tawny mustache, and earnestly regarded the prisoner.
At one of the machines sat a woman whose age could not have exceeded twenty-eight years, with a figure of the Juno type, and a beautiful dark face wheretawny chatoyant eyes showed the baleful fire of a leopardess.
These people were to appearance very civil, being Mahometans of middle stature and dark tawny complexions, but their women somewhat clearer than the men.
The men in these boats were very tall and large-limbed, of tawny complexions, with long black hair reaching to their middles, and were all utterly stark naked, not even covering their parts of shame.
The women are not so tawny as the men, and many of them are handsome; but they are generally amorous, and unfaithful to their husbands, and are apt to deal in poisoning, which they manage with much art.
These islanders were large handsome men, extraordinarily fat, and of a tawny colour, mostly having very long hair, some wearing it tied up in large knots on the crown of their heads, like certain wooden images at the heads of their canoes.
The original inhabitants of the island are Malays, who are of middle stature and tawny complexions.
Her little face, encircled in a halo of jet-black hair, is a note of tawny or orange yellow?
A tawny streak, a red fox, sped through it as Dundas looked.
He thought with a certain anxiety of the tawny tiny owl that had sat like a stuffed ornament on the mantel-piece of a neighboring room, and he listened with a quaking vicarious presentiment of woe for the sounds of capture and despair.
There was one place for pinky trillium, and another for gentians; one for tawny adders' tongues, and another for yellow Dutchman's breeches.
In the sky soft-looking, tawny clouds came tumbling along like playful cats--or tigers.
If you would like to take a walk you will remember forever, go by the carriage road from the top of Mount Washington to the Glen House, and look into the great gulfs, and study the tawny sides of the mountains.
His tawny hair was long and tangled, matted now many years past the possibility of being entered by a comb.
He was so pleased that he chuckled to himself for some minutes in the depths of his tawny beard.
By the end of their walk there seemed nothing left of the original Von Baumser except a tawny beard, and an expression of hopeless and overpowering astonishment.
So have I," grinned Tad, whereat Lilly tugged some more at his tawny moustache.
Lilly forgot to tug at his tawny moustache and straightening back against a tree opened his mouth and uttered a loud "Haw, haw, haw.
