tan

• I had seen the same thing once or twice in people to whom I thought it had come as the fruit of wide experience in the world While Miss Trescott was slim, and rather below the medium in height, she was not at all thin; and had the great mass of ruddy dark hair and fine brown eyes which I remembered so well, and a face which would have been pale had it not been for the tan--the only thing about her which suggested those occupations by which she became her father's "right-hand man." —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
• He was gray-white under his tan, and his head bobbed from side to side with the rocking of the horse's running stride Their pursuers pulled pace a little, maybe fearing a trap. —  Ride Proud, Rebel!
• This had been originally of a reddish hue, but sun-tan, and a thick sprinkling of freckles, had changed the red to golden-yellow. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• A tan is, strictly speaking, a tent, but a tent is a dwelling, or stopping-place; and so from earliest Aryan time, the word tan is like Alabama, or "here we rest," and may be found in tun_, the ancestor of town, and in stan_, as in Hindostan,--and if I blunder, so much the better for the philological gentlemen, who, of all others, most delight in setting erring brothers right, and never miss a chance to show, through others' shame, how much they know There was a bark of a dog, and a voice said, "The Romany rye!" —  The Gypsies
• I give it as it was written, first in Romany, and then in English Febmunti 1_st MIRO KAMLO PAL,--Tu tevel mishto ta shun te latcherdum me akovo kurikus tacho Romany tan akai adre o gav. —  The Gypsies

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