fawnish

The faunlike face creased into lines of surprise, the fawnish eyes widened in astonishment.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The faunlike face creased into lines of surprise, the fawnish eyes widened in astonishment.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

It was really a quite attractive little monument: a statue in pale, fawnish stone, of a Tommy standing at ease, with his gun down at his side, wearing his puttees and his turned – up felt hat.

Kangaroo 2004

The winter wheat was already turned a fawnish silver by the glaring sun, miles upon miles of it rippling and bending in the wind, broken only by stands of thin, spinding, blue-leafed trees and dusty clumps of tired grey bushes.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

He chafed at her containment, at her courage, her silence, her withholding the brazen or the fawnish look-up, either of which he would have hated.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

He chafed at her containment, at her courage, her silence, her withholding the brazen or the fawnish look-up, either of which he would have hated.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

He chafed at her containment, at her courage, her silence, her withholding the brazen or the fawnish look-up, either of which he would have hated.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

His fawnish eyes encountered Ventidius’s, and he went red; they held contempt.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

His fawnish eyes encountered Ventidius’s, and he went red; they held contempt.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Kate sat bolt upright, unsupported, and looked at her father out of speckled eyes neither William Henry’s nor Kitty’s; hers were a fawnish grey which tended to disguise the presence of the dark dots peppering them.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000