primrose-coloured

• “Her morning gown was a pale primrose-coloured paduasoy: the cuffs and robins curiously embroidered by the fingers of this ever-charming Arachne, in a running pattern of violets and their leaves, the light in the flowers silver, gold in the leaves.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Dick was advancing to the door in a painfully new coat of shining cloth, primrose-coloured waistcoat, hat of the same painful style of newness, and with an extra quantity of whiskers shaved off his face, and hair cut to an unwonted shortness in honour of the occasion.”

  Under the Greenwood Tree

• “She walked at Swithin, holding out a hand cased in a long, primrose-coloured glove:”

  The Man of Property

• “She had primrose-coloured gloves that fitted her hands like a second skin.”

  The Moonstone

• “It was airy and light, with a primrose-coloured Aga cooker and plenty of cupboards and shelves.”

  Death of a Charming Man

• “He was withdrawing by the same door at which he had entered, and drawing it closed after him by the iron latch, when the draught of the movement and the lengthening shaft of sunlight piercing the passage fluttered and illumined a single primrose-coloured thread, waving at the level of his eyes from the doorpost.”

  The Sanctuary Sparrow

• “But Madelon never thought of them, nor looked in that direction, indeed; with dazed eyes she was making her way along the semi-darkness of the passage to the parlour at the end, when she ran right up against some one who was coming towards her -- a stout old lady, with grey hair, and a little grey moustache, a very gay shawl, and a large bonnet, with primrose-coloured ribbons.”

  My Little Lady

• “Some morning, when the vast stage of the opera is humming with activity, the well-known primrose-coloured automobile will drive up to the entrance and the Emperor, accompanied only by a single adjutant, will emerge.”

  William of Germany

• “The Triumph's barge was painted primrose yellow picked out with black, and so were the oarblades; her crew wore primrose-coloured jumpers with black neckcloths.”

  Flying Colours

• “When we were very young and away from home our monthly allowance, the amount of which we shall not state, but it cost us less effort than any money we ever received since, came to us by way of pale primrose-coloured cheques.”

  Pipefuls

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