tea-brown

Its dun-colored wartime vellum had darkened to tea-brown, even wedged in the airless space between the massive Swift and corpulent Mann.

Two Poets Carol Reid 2011

She hadn't forgotten his skinny arms, tea-brown downy sticks revealed by the cut off sleeves of his Harley sweatshirt.

Deer Collage Carol Reid 2011

My father took off his glasses and squinted his tea-brown eyes against the sudden brightness.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

My father took off his glasses and squinted his tea-brown eyes against the sudden brightness.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

Portraits of bankers with waxed mustaches, their faces grim, old brasserie maids with henna cheeks, a sea merchant with sad tea-brown eyes, a riverside picnic where a wooden boat rippled in a wave of amber and the sun appeared as a pale ball of wax.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

When she finally crossed the wooden bridge over water tea-brown with dead leaves, her sides ached, her wounded shoulder throbbed with her heartbeat.

A Shadow in Summer 2006

Portraits of bankers with waxed mustaches, their faces grim, old brasserie maids with henna cheeks, a sea merchant with sad tea-brown eyes, a riverside picnic where a wooden boat rippled in a wave of amber and the sun appeared as a pale ball of wax.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Portraits of bankers with waxed mustaches, their faces grim, old brasserie maids with henna cheeks, a sea merchant with sad tea-brown eyes, a riverside picnic where a wooden boat rippled in a wave of amber and the sun appeared as a pale ball of wax.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Although she had tried with repeated scrubbings to remove from its cover the stains of a bloody nose he'd suffered at thirteen, the faint spot was still there, faded to a pale tea-brown and shaped like a jagged nest.

Excerpt: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich 2003

A thin, miserly crack seeped up from the anchor and dissolved in the tea-brown smog.

The Wall Jeff Long 2005