tawnier

She was tawnier than most, but with a long lovely Egyptian face and huge eyes which at the moment were disfigured by weeping.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

The library was today rather a melancholy room: the great book-cases did not enliven it; the grand-piano, with its old dark polish, seemed like a coffin, the sarcophagus of unrisen music; the oak panelling had absorbed a richer hue with the years than once it wore; the portrait of his mother seemed farther withdrawn from sight and air; Antinoüs took a tawnier tint in his long reverie.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

However, she did it; and then, satisfied apparently with having exerted herself so far for the protection of all, Miss Nellie crouched down in the corner of the carriage behind Bob, who, two years her elder and a stoutly-built boy for his age, with short-cropped hair of a tawnier tinge, stood up sturdily in front of his trembling little sister to defend her, if need be, as manfully as he could.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

She rarely rode otherwise than bare-headed, and the high-rolled masses of her hair had grown tawnier and redder for that reason.

The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890

In Governor's Harbour, head to the sugary, tawnier pink sand of French Leave Beach, once the domain of a Club Med that was blown away by a hurricane in 1999.

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