ochre

• The hanging valley, when they reached it, was a concave emerald corridor between peaks layered with brick-red, ochre, and black-rock strata, sublimely beautiful against an azure sky. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
• Standing naked before the horned altar, Aganippe struggled to stay awake, murmuring prayers she had recited since girlhood, while they painted her body with yellow ochre-- the earth color. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
• Everywhere slender fruit-trees spread their grafted branches; everywhere in the crumbling furrows of the soil, warm as ochre, the bunched strawberries hung like drops of red wine under the sun-bronzed leaves The sun was an hour high when he walked his horse up the last hill that hides the valley of the Saar. —  Lorraine A romance
• "Later he learned--after I squeezed him on the liver a few times just to show him how--to switch to a lovely shade of ochre, which was delightful on pale green or pink paper. —  Droozle
• Could these hideous, ochre-stained, grease-bedaubed brutes appreciate that peerless beauty? —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

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