rusty-black

She rubbed the spittle into his skin in a businesslike way, bent close enough that he could smell the ancient sweat of her and see the lice crawling in the grizzled hair that keeked from the edge of her rusty-black shawl.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

His short figure, his short-sighted and undistinguished countenance, his rather rusty-black clerical clothes, could pass through any crowd in his own country without being noticed as anything unusual, except perhaps unusually insignificant.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

His short figure, his short-sighted and undistinguished countenance, his rather rusty-black clerical clothes, could pass through any crowd in his own country without being noticed as anything unusual, except perhaps unusually insignificant.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

To complete the drear picture a row of rusty-black vultures sat along the broad naked limb of the nearest of these hulks, their red-raw heads upraised as they croaked and sidled up and down.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

Father were smiling happily; Susan clasped her hands and very properly said "Glory" again; the children danced; Mrs. Cricket wiped the corners of her eyes with her rusty-black shawl; and little Johnny

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

The present watcher, a stoop-shouldered, big, rusty-black bird, was quite indifferent to human presence; he sat on his post like a usurer on his high stool, calculating and immovable.

The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart

Conspicuous among them was the Pileated Woodpecker, (_Picus pilcaius_,) a bird with rusty-black plumage, a red crest and moustaches, and a white stripe on each side of the neck, -- one of the largest of the tribe.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

In a few minutes she appeared attired in a short, rusty-black skirt, sabots on her feet, and a black woollen shawl over her head and shoulders.

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

To complete the drear picture a row of rusty-black vultures sat along die broad naked limb of die nearest of these hulks, their red-raw heads upraised as they croaked and sidled up and down.

Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938

Presently Johnny, staring dreamily out of his window, saw approaching a rusty-black umbrella held at precisely the wrong angle in respect of the storm, but held with the unvarying stiffness with which a soldier might hold a bayonet, and knew it for his uncle Jonathan's umbrella.

The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910