saffrons

Higher the waves rolled — phosphorescent green and iridescent violet, weird copperous yellows and metallic saffrons and a shimmer of glittering ash of rose — then wavered, split and formed into gigantic, sparkling, marching curtains of splendor.

The Metal Monster 2004

Deek brought over the next batch of wash, which was of mingled saffrons, tawnys and bright yellows, and dumped it in the cauldron.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

But often, after months of it, the isolation would begin to change him, change his very perceptions-the jagged mountains in full daylight flaring as he watched into freak saffrons, streaming indigos, the sky his glass house, all the island his tulipoma-nia.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

On that evening, I remember, the reds and saffrons in the sky were of an astonishing richness.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

It thrives in a sandy loam or leaf soil, in a sunny part, and increases itself at the roots like the saffrons.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

The chief traffic is in slaves, but coffee is exported extensively from Hurrna, and large caravans three times in the year visit the ports, Zeyla and Barbara, laden with ivory, ostrich feathers, ghee, saffrons, gums, and myrrh.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

How quickly the subtle browns and saffrons and vermilions fade!

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

And at once, by a mere turn of the eyes, from the almost crude insistence of the bright primary color of life, you faced the tenuous azures of distance, the delicate mauves and amethysts, the lilacs and saffrons of the arid country.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

And at once, by a mere turn of the eyes, from the almost crude insistence of the bright primary color of life, you faced the tenuous azures of distance, the delicate mauves and amethysts, the lilacs and saffrons of the arid country.

The Mountains 1904

The wide and frost-bound water here and there had been swept clear of its snows by the wind, but for the most part its covering lay unruffled; and the pale dove-colors, and saffrons, and rose-lilacs of the dawn were sweetly reflected on its surface.

Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901