After it the buttercups appear of a quiet colour, like dead gold in contrast.

A single print well placed in a room of quiet colour will enrich and dominate a whole wall.

Among well-dressed persons it will be found that quiet colours are always preferred.

A little ray of infinite brightness began to steal in upon their quiet colours and despised forms.

Quiet colours, well assorted; an absence of glare and display, nothing in extremes, betoken a correct eye and good taste.

So often, too, we only feel the dull and quiet colours, instead of using the many brilliant ones that nature loves so well.

"He only said that they must be of a quiet colour, and they are of a quiet colour, aren't they, sir?"