stone-colour

The above stone-colour fit for use, is not three and a half cents per pound.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

The pattern was a series of quatrefoils painted in stone-colour on the wood, outlined black, and filled with green.

Ely Cathedral Anonymous

The bow-window below leads into a little parlour hung with a stone-colour Gothic paper and Jackson's Venetian prints, which I could never endure while they pretended, infamous as they are, to be after Titian, &c., but when I gave them this air of barbarous bas-reliefs, they succeeded to a miracle: it is impossible at first sight not to conclude that they contain the history of Attila or Tottila, done about the very aera.

Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890

By dinner-time I succeeded in finishing the painting, giving the craft not only a coat of black from her rail down to the copper, with a white stripe or ribbon round the ornamental groove cut for that purpose in the covering-board, but also a coat of pale stone-colour all round the inside of her low bulwarks, as well as a touch of varnish on the teak and mahogany-fittings of the deck.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

His body was of a deep dead brown, broadly marked with irregular stripes and rings of pale stone-colour; and he emitted a strong musky odour, which, even at our distance from him, was almost overpowering.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

A couple of deal tables and two chairs were all the furniture the room contained, in addition to the cupboards, painted in stone-colour, which covered the walls.

Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885

Krakatoa, on the other hand, was resplendent with stone-colour, and smelt strongly of it.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

And its door you could see through the glass of into the hall, when its shutters were not thumb-screwed up over the panes, was painted a green that staggered the reason, and smelt even more strongly than the stone-colour.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

The ground-colour, too, in the egg of _L. erythronotus_ has seldom, if ever, as much green in it, and has commonly more of the pale creamy or pinky stone-colour than in the case of _L. lahtora_.

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

The ground is a pale olive stone-colour, and they are very minutely freckled and mottled, most densely at the large end, with pale, very slightly reddish brown; the freckling is excessively minute and fine.

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