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  • The State Dining Room was transformed into an Indian garden, with overflowing vases of orange and red flowers, saffron-hued silk tablecloths, and miniature trumpeting elephants fashioned from hot pink and green mums and roses.

    Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

  • The State Dining Room was transformed into an Indian garden, with overflowing vases of orange and red flowers, saffron-hued silk tablecloths, and miniature trumpeting elephants fashioned from hot pink and green mums and roses.

    Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

  • The artists initially planned to erect 15,000 saffron-hued "gates" in Central Park in October.

    Monuments 2010

  • And hardly had we taken note of this when there came forth from the baldaquin a young lady and I looked, O Commander of the Faithful, upon a face and form more perfect than the moon when fullest, with a favour brighter than the dawn gleaming with saffron-hued light, even as the poet sang when he said —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Around Orléans it was green-tinged and full of lucerne haze, or it was saffron-hued from the flower and spice harvests, and these had the effect of softening the edges of things.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Just beyond it was the desert sand, and in the background a saffron-hued mountain known as the Camomile Mountain; and camomile was the scent which pervaded our village and all Damascus.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Around Orléans it was green-tinged and full of lucerne haze, or it was saffron-hued from the flower and spice harvests, and these had the effect of softening the edges of things.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • Around Orléans it was green-tinged and full of lucerne haze, or it was saffron-hued from the flower and spice harvests, and these had the effect of softening the edges of things.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

  • In a small clearing, two powerful yellow-skinned Khitans were trussing a saffron-hued girl to a tree.

    Conan the Avenger Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • "Sixteen-string Jack," and all that delectable fraternity, whose lives bloom so fragrantly in the pages of the saffron-hued literature of the day, would have spat in the faces of such fellows as Jackson, had they dared to claim the acquaintance of persons so much their superiors.

    Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

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