Of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather.
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Examples for "tawny "
Examples for "tawny "
1 Avery said simply, 'I saw him fall.' The tawny eyes were distant.
2 The men are remarkably idle and stupid; they are tawny and lean.
3 Once more the column undulated over the tawny crest of the hill.
4 Presently the familiar cliff and the tawny path scaling it loomed ahead.
5 Harris set the glass back down and stared into its tawny heart.
1 He thought she had dazzling tawny - brown eyes, which were almost covered by her bangs.
2 Her small, tawny - brown eyes concentrated in a point of vivid, sightless fury, like a tiger's.
3 When the sunlight touched her, it lit up more shades of tawny-brown-leaf-hazel-corn-gold-autumn-mahogany than Lyra could name.
4 Obedient to my command, but still growling deep in his throat, his tawny - brown eyes fixed on Hector.
5 A young lad with tawny - brown hair, long-limbed and tall for his years, rallied them, urged them to hold fast.
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