brownly

The canonical descriptions of perceptual experiences, then, employ adverbial modifications of the perceptual verbs: instead of describing an experience as someone's “visually sensing a brown square”, the theory says that they are “visually sensing brownly and squarely”.

The Problem of Perception Crane, Tim 2005

This is not to say that the experience is brown, but rather that the experience is modified in a certain way, the way we can call “perceiving brownly”.

The Problem of Perception Crane, Tim 2005

With its surface ruffled by the breeze it was far less peaceful than when I'd first seen it and just as brownly muddy as the day it gave up its dead.

Slay Ride Francis, Dick, 1920- 1974

Major electric powerlines and other utilities routed arrogantly with only straight-line distances in mind, up hill and down dale and with their cleared rights-of-way kept brownly dead with herbicides, can intrude starkly on the beauty and mood of historic or pleasantly natural landscapes.

The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.

The bees droned on; the bullfrogs gave forth a deep wise thought or two; while softly, deeply, brownly, flowed the stream beside the path, with only a far, still fisherman here and there who noticed not.

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

As we leave East Williston we approach more interesting country, with a semblance of hills, and wooded thickets still brownly tapestried with the dry funeral of last year's leaves.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

By the time the toast was made and the fish curling brownly away from the pan, the sun had indeed come out, at first pale and watery, then clear, and still high enough in the heavens to set the soaked earth steaming fragrantly with its heat.

More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

The water, consequently, was but brownly translucent and revealed its secrets reluctantly; nevertheless certain dim little shapes had been observed to move within it, and were still there.

Ramsey Milholland Booth Tarkington 1907

All about her stretched the rolling grass land, faintly green in the hollows, brownly barren on the hilltops.

Chip, of the Flying U B. M. Bower 1905