ocherous

• “The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Curse of the Wendigo

• “Apparently the piece had then been placed in the hands of some person of infinite leisure equipped with a pot of ocherous paint, varnish, and a set of flexible combs.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “Powered forever by the inexhaustible Sun, impervious to the cold, Sojourner may to this day be wearing grooves in that ocherous desert floor.”

  A Space in Time

• “It is only a little village, composed of about twenty houses, grouped on a slightly undulating bank, formed of ocherous earth and clay.”

  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

• “These small torpedoes were, of course, neither waterlogged double coronas jettisoned by a listing Cuban freighter nor a species of blind Amazon trout but, rather, a sampling of the ocherous projectiles fired into the river night and day from the fundaments of Pucallpa.”

  Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

• “Desert reached subtly colored to ocherous cliffs afar.”

  Operation Luna

• “Beyond glimmered the pale strata, then layers again ocherous, on to the final heights.”

  Operation Luna

• “Waned slightly past half phase, the curves of it limned a blue and white marbling, an ocherous blur that was land, a luminance that lingered for a moment after you looked away from it as a dream may linger when first you awaken.”

  The Stars Are Also Fire

• “The station house was a frame building in a grove of ocherous-glowing fruit trees.”

  The Game Of Empire

• “It was a dwarf planet, an ocherous pebble that would not make a decent splash if it fell into one of the gas giants.”

  The Earth Book of Stormgate

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