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  • His face was of a tint that never deepened upon his cheeks nor lightened upon his forehead, but remained uniform throughout; the usual neutral salmon-colour of a man who feeds well — not to say too well — and does not think hard; every pore being in visible working order.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • All the rooms were painted alike, in salmon-colour with a high dado of maroon; and there was in them an odour of disinfectants, mingling as the afternoon wore on with the crude stench of humanity.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • All the rooms were painted alike, in salmon-colour with a high dado of maroon; and there was in them an odour of disinfectants, mingling as the afternoon wore on with the crude stench of humanity.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • Above them the sky was salmon-colour; patches of late sunlight burned red on the tree trunks; over the lagoon against the slowly kindling west clouds of wild-fowl whirled, swung, and spread out into endless lengthening streaks like drifting bands of smoke.

    The Firing Line 1899

  • His face was of a tint that never deepened upon his cheeks nor lightened upon his forehead, but remained uniform throughout; the usual neutral salmon-colour of a man who feeds well -- not to say too well -- and does not think hard; every pore being in visible working order.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

  • One was of a sallowish salmon-colour, and transparent, the other was of brick-red paper with a fringe.

    The Brownies and Other Tales 1871

  • In the colour of the ground, as above remarked, there is every possible, variety of shade between pure white and a very rich salmon-colour.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The ground varies from pale pinky white to pale salmon-colour.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The ground-colour varies from a creamy or pinky white to a decided but very pale salmon-colour.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The one pure white and spotless, the other a pale salmon-colour, spotted with a rich brownish red.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

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