dun-coloured

So on this sunny August day, he devised a knowledge-seeking mission we could embark on together: we set out to see if we could find a tiny dun-coloured creature called the brown argus, a butterfly that had been known to fly along this section of the coast but had not been recorded here for some years.

Patrick Barkham: Hunting butterflies, finding Dad Patrick Barkham 2010

So, as ever with food from the Indian subcontinent, the table heaved with a collection of dun-coloured stews, but they were each distinct, toothsome dun-coloured stews.

Restaurant review: Jali 2010

A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths.

Sole Music 2010

Updates, 3/23: The biggest laugh comes when Leonidas, while striding purposefully around in his dun-coloured pants, gruffly denounces the culture of Athens as 'poets and boy-lovers!'

GreenCine Daily: 300. Again. 2007

The uncovered part had the appearance of a huge cylinder, caked over and its outline softened by a thick scaly dun-coloured incrustation.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Lacking tank or infantry support, the South Africans could only watch, wait and admire the distant view of the tomb that gave the airfield its name, a small white blob on the crest of the far escarpment, shining out over the dun-coloured landscape.

Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

The Queen Victoria Building, according to the Living in Mexico blog had an impressive façade: a great Romanesque Revival pile of dun-coloured stone, meant to suggest the might and permanence of the British Empire.

Elegant Shopping: QVB Sydney Hels 2009

The Queen Victoria Building, according to the Living in Mexico blog had an impressive façade: a great Romanesque Revival pile of dun-coloured stone, meant to suggest the might and permanence of the British Empire.

Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009

The main structure, four cliff-like walls of dun-coloured stone, is built round a bleak quadrangle and pierced by an archway: the blank rows of windows stare down at a fountain basin which looks as if it has never in living memory been filled with water.

Sunday Online Browsing « So Many Books 2005

Though, for that matter, so many maimed histories are hourly enacting themselves in this dun-coloured world as to lend almost a priority of interest to narratives concerning those

Two on a Tower 2006