mud-coloured

She creeps on like Jane Eyre, in a long mud-coloured dress, with her hair looped back and downcast eyes.

Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust Susannah Clapp 2010

The Silsila was the wide, lazy, ugly river with mud-coloured water, which flowed through the city not far from their home.

'Luka and the Fire of Life' 2010

The curtains, of mud-coloured or oxblood plush, were thick enough to exclude all external light.

Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

I was alone on the road, but for two labourers huddled near a tea shop in mud-coloured shawls.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

I was alone on the road, but for two labourers huddled near a tea shop in mud-coloured shawls.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

I was alone on the road, but for two labourers huddled near a tea shop in mud-coloured shawls.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

When I was tired of walking about I would stand still at my study window, and, looking across the wide courtyard, over the pond and the bare young birch-trees and the great fields covered with recently fallen, thawing snow, I saw on a low hill on the horizon a group of mud-coloured huts from which a black muddy road ran down in an irregular streak through the white field.

The Wife 2004

Behold, among acres of similar growth, a trivial collection of rough, short weeds of the sea — grey, green and mud-coloured.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Rebus looked around at the mud-coloured lorries, each one bearing the simple word DEMOLITION.

Excerpt: Set In Darkness by Ian Rankin 2000

There was a troublesome mud-coloured French station wagon parked in front of the garage, and they would work on that, trying to fix two doors that would not shut properly and to deal with an overheating engine.

The Kalahari Typing School For Men Smith, Alexander McCall 2002