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  • The modifiers refer to familiar or common objects (sky-blue, milk-white), to familiar metals (silver-white, gold-yellow) or to coloring materials (indigo-blue, verdigris-green).

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Or maybe a leonine gold-yellow, with a deep chocolate lining good for brunettes.

    January 2008 2008

  • Or maybe a leonine gold-yellow, with a deep chocolate lining good for brunettes.

    Femme Fatale - A Dress A Day 2008

  • On this tundra knoll above the gray cold river are the first flowers of the arctic spring, a large gold-yellow cinquefoil and a harebell of deep midnight blue, grown close together in the moss and tight low heather as if keeping each other company against the elements.

    Inside the Endangered Arctic Refuge Matthiessen, Peter 2006

  • An old fellow in a baseball hat was at the bar sipping a glass of gold-yellow beer; he was the only customer.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • He had moved through the new chamber — a high, vaulted gallery, dimly lit with pools of gold-yellow light.

    The Flood Dietz, William 2003

  • At sunset on a train looking out and seeing as the sun sets, you know, when gold is very, very hot it turns pink, so this pinkish, gold-yellow sunset and then you see an animal, an elephant I saw looking out of the train, pink, golden elephant just drinking in a pool out the window of a train, sort of the classic image of Africa.

    Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town 2003

  • Out of the neck opening squirmed a slender humanoid resembling what might result if a squirrel mated with a chimpanzee, except the brow was lofty, it was hairless and tailless, and its gold-yellow eyes twinkled with humorous intelligence.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

  • They rustled back into place behind him,. smelling like allspice, trapping gold-yellow sunlight in their leaves.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • Apparently it ranges from deep gold-yellow to yellowish-white if there's a high silver content.

    War Game Price, Anthony 1976

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