dull-brown

If we had infra-red sunglasses, the world might appear a lot more pleasant than in its more usual shades of dull-brown, muddy-green, and dirt-gray.

Boing Boing 2009

LOUIS sprawls where mighty rivers meet,—as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

It was dull-brown mousy hair, and her hands were bare and red.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

Chocolate normally was dull-brown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Chocolate normally was dull-brown crumbly stuff that tasted, as nearly as one could describe it, like the smoke of a rubbish fire.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

In Oceania, the apartment houses of the masses smell of cabbage from top to bottom, water pipes regularly burst, and chocolate is "dull-brown crumbly stuff that tastes like the smoke of a rubbish fire."

'Making Political Writing Into An Art' - Celebrating the Centenary of Orwell's Birth 2003

Above the red grit, weathered into a thousand queer shapes, stood strata of chloritic sand, a pale yellow-green, and capping it rose the usual dull-brown carbonate of lime.

The Land of Midian 2003

Luz slow-cantered the dull-brown Thoroughbred toward the white ball sitting near midfield.

The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

Luz slow-cantered the dull-brown Thoroughbred toward the white ball sitting near midfield.

The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

Luz slow-cantered the dull-brown Thoroughbred toward the white ball sitting near midfield.

The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985