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biscuit-coloured

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  • Here Libya were more fluid and the hosts only a little crude, presided over by their Brazilian manager dressed in the biscuit-coloured suit and shirt of a suave international jewel thief.

    Gary Lineker's jokes have you itching for a touch of punk from Africa | Barney Ronay 2012

  • But when he \expndtw3 was finally dressed in the biscuit-coloured Armani suit, \expndtw2 shirt, silk tie, gold cuff links and gold watch, he realised what a good idea it was.

    Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

  • Blood soaking into the biscuit-coloured carpet beneath it.

    Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004

  • Kate quickly dried her feet and legs on her handkerchief, and pulled on her biscuit-coloured silk stockings and brown shoes.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • It was a suite of motel rooms, biscuit-coloured Wilton on the floors, chocolate-coloured linen at the windows and upholstering the furniture, here and there murals that were blends of Samuel Palmer and Rowland Hilder or montages of beaten tin cans and bits of bamboo.

    The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983

  • He came in a hired car looking biscuit-coloured from the sun and anxious about what he would find, and although I was by then feeling well again it didn't seem to reassure him.

    Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981

  • This constrained flesh is sheathed in biscuit-coloured wool and upon ie shelf rested three strands of pearls.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • There is generally an expression of perfect satisfaction with life as he finds it, on his lineless biscuit-coloured face and in his brown agate eyes -- a content seldom expressed under the top-hats in the Park.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • He swung a cane that was almost a club in his left hand, and there was a cockade in his biscuit-coloured, conical hat.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Then, taking his resolve, and putting the best face upon it, since no other could help him here, he kicked off his shoes, peeled off his fine coat of biscuit-coloured taffetas, and climbed upon the plank.

    Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

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