snuff-brown

The prayer was cut off when a burly man wearing a snuff-brown doublet shoved him out of the way with a curse.

WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL GILBERT MORRIS 2010

Rachel had chosen a snuff-brown dress of heavy silk to wear this night.

Dearly Beloved 2010

Nor has it been without delectation that I have endued a new coat (snuff-brown, and with metal buttons), having all nether garments corresponding thereto.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Chaboisseau, a little old person with powdered hair, wore a greenish coat and snuff-brown waistcoat; he was tricked out besides in black small-clothes, ribbed stockings, and shoes that creaked as he came forward to take the bills.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

He had on a snuff-brown coat, with a broad band of tinsel down the arms, and carried in his hand a large tail made of the caudal extremities of

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Akadie, a thin long-armed man with an ill-assorted set of features-a big nose, sparse curls of snuff-brown hair, glassy blue eyes, a mouth continually trembling at the verge of a smile-was, like Glay, something of a misfit.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

His secretary was a spare, middle-aged, anxious-looking woman in snuff-brown and spectacles; his stenographer a blond young man, also spectacled and anxious; his office boy a stern youth in knickers, who bore no relation to the slangy, gum-chewing, redheaded office boy of the comic sections.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

He pressed a buzzer -- the snuff-brown secretary buzzer.

Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.

Fanny Herself 1917