yellow-ochre

The Virgin sits in an immense yellow-ochre halo, with her son in her arms.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Firmly snapping the door to, she crossed the corridor, with its gloomy, yellow-ochre walls, and its infinite vista of brown, numbered doors.

The Man of Property 2004

Batteries of artillery or long columns of cavalry emerged from a filmy world of uneven crystal on to the hard yellow-ochre sand, and took up their positions amid jagged red-black rocks with violet shadows.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Batteries of artillery or long columns of cavalry emerged from a filmy world of uneven crystal on to the hard yellow-ochre sand, and took up their positions amid jagged red-black rocks with violet shadows.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Batteries of artillery or long columns of cavalry emerged from a filmy world of uneven crystal on to the hard yellow-ochre sand, and took up their positions amid jagged red-black rocks with violet shadows.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

With a yellow-ochre paint cake he smeared the legs and the breast, great streaks against the background of flour, ash, and turmeric.

Kim 2003

The face, daubed and glistening with an unsightly coating of red, white, and yellow-ochre paint, and adorned with protuberant bristles by way of eyebrows, appeared twice its natural dimensions.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

There is something a trifle "animal" in these villages, rough clusters of bee's-comb or ant-heaps or beavers 'lodgings as they might be, assuming exactly the shade of their surroundings, as nests the colour of their hiding-places, or as the kh [= a] ki-coloured sand-lizard, desert-lark, and sand-grouse of the great Sahara take on the yellow-ochre tone of that desert.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

To make it lighter, employ a mixture of yellow-ochre.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

Clean-cut against a pale yellow-ochre background and enveloped in a deep purple bloom, the mighty peaks of the distant "Rockies" upreared their eternal snow-capped glory in a salute to departing day.

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall