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brown-and-green

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  • Moving Brands devised a mark that evoked a tea strainer and used black, white and silver for everything from packaging to stationery, setting up a contrast with rivals who used tea-leaf images and brown-and-green graphics.

    A Design Jury's Eye Candy 2011

  • In the old, brown-and-green image, my mother and father held my older, blonder sister, Clementine, while Uncle Bud carried a dark-haired toddler on his shoulders.

    A Bad Day’s Work Nora McFarland 2010

  • They look like they have longish red hair and a brown-and-green tunic on to me.

    Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle 2009

  • Their platoon had been on patrol in the Languedoc, part of a joint effort with the British and Canadians to secure the southwest and flush out isolated Germans while the main U.S. force continued its eastward advance, and had wandered into a trap on the outskirts of Narbonne: Germans in brown-and-green camouflage uniforms, backed up by a half-track with a heavy machine gun.

    The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

  • Beyond that, the taller old-growth pines rose like a brown-and-green wall.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • When she frowned, defeated, Caro hid a smile; for this setting, for his role, Michael was sartorially impeccable in a perfectly tailored riding jacket in brown-and-green tweed, his cravat snowy white, simply styled, his waistcoat an understated brown velvet, his breeches tight-fitting buckskins that disppeared into gleaming topboots.

    The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

  • There was no sky — only a dark, ominous tent that draped in the tops of the streets and was in reality a vast approaching army of snowflakes — while over it all, chilling away the comfort from the brown-and-green glow of lighted windows and muffling the steady trot of the horse pulling their sleigh, interminably washed the north wind.

    Flappers and Philosophers 2003

  • Silently it began a gradual descent, its dappled brown-and-green fur together with the red and yellow lichens that grew upon it allowing it to blend in perfectly with its sodden surroundings.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Silently it began a gradual descent, its dappled brown-and-green fur together with the red and yellow lichens that grew upon it allowing it to blend in perfectly with its sodden surroundings.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • A line of four brown-speckled ducks led by a brown-and-green drake were stemming away downhill from the upper meadow, coming like boats running on a ruffled sea, cockling their way top speed downwards towards the fence and towards the little group of people, and cackling as excitedly as if they brought news of the Spanish

    The Fox 2003

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