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mulberry-coloured

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  • He drew it under the sleeve of his mulberry-coloured great-coat, and I walked on, almost upon compulsion, arm-in-arm with him.

    Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep hradzka 2010

  • She looked around her; the room was large and high-ceilinged, its walls hung with mulberry-coloured paper.

    A Kiss For Julie Neels, Betty 1996

  • I had no consolation in seeing how different she was from this detestable Rufus with the mulberry-coloured great-coat, for I felt that in the very difference between them, in the self-denial of her pure soul and the sordid baseness of his, the greatest danger lay.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • He drew it under the sleeve of his mulberry-coloured great-coat, and I walked on, almost upon compulsion, arm-in-arm with him.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • I had no consolation in seeing how different she was from this destestable Rufus with the mulberry-coloured greatcoat, for I felt that in the very difference between them, in the self-denial of her pure soul and the sordid baseness of his, the greatest danger lay.

    XXVI. I Fall into Captivity 1917

  • None the less, he did make advances, and on one memorable occasion went to the length of bestowing on me a whole pot of some outlandish mulberry-coloured jelly that had been duplicated in his term's supplies.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • The arresting feature of his costume was a mulberry-coloured coat, with brass buttons.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • Nan fairly gasped, as Patty took from her wardrobe a strange-looking affair of mulberry-coloured woolen goods.

    Patty Blossom Carolyn Wells 1902

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