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  • Above a big double bed hang exposed pipes and swathes of liver-coloured insulating material.

    That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review 2011

  • A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.

    Chennai 2010

  • The very footstool could not keep the floor, but got upon a sofa, and there-from proclaimed itself, in high relief of white and liver-coloured wool, a favourite spaniel coiled up for repose.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • He had, however, but one lasting love affair, for a liver-coloured lass of our village, not quite of his own caste, but a wholesome if somewhat elderly girl, with loving and sphinx-like eyes.

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

  • It was only a small white-and - liver-coloured spaniel which sat on the front ledge of the waggon, with large timid eyes, and an incessant trembling in the body, such as you may have seen in some of these small creatures.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • Yes, brotherly is the word for it, for she was twenty years younger than me, and I had bought her an ivory gum-ring with golden bells on it for her to cut her teeth on when she was a mere liver-coloured handful of babe in long clothes.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Yes, brotherly is the word for it, for she was twenty years younger than me, and I had bought her an ivory gum-ring with golden bells on it for her to cut her teeth on when she was a mere liver-coloured handful of babe in long clothes.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • We recognized Nasir on his liver-coloured stallion, the splendid animal yet spirited after its hundred miles of a running fight: also old Nuri Shaalan and about thirty of their servants.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • In an arch under the dresser, reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • He strode into the garden and overturned several rocks until he found a large, moist, and liver-coloured earthworm.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

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