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  • The umber-colored silk she wore toned down what I, who fancied the delicate sea-shell hue of blondes, should have termed her rather strong colors; and now, bent on my enjoyment rather than improvement, she looked much younger, and certainly far handsomer, than I had supposed she could.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

  • It was a dazzling March afternoon, with a shower of sun from the mid-blue, and a marshalling of slaty clouds behind the umber-colored hills.

    The House of the Dead Hand 1904

  • It was a dazzling March afternoon, with a shower of sun from the mid-blue, and a marshalling of slaty clouds behind the umber-colored hills.

    The House of the Dead Hand 1904

  • It was a dazzling March afternoon, with a shower of sun from the mid-blue, and a marshalling of slaty clouds behind the umber-colored hills.

    The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 Edith Wharton 1899

  • The brown boy, who seemed like a goblin, umber-colored fungus, growing by a snaky black wild vine, sat by her and stared at me.

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

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