This monomorphic species is identified by its overall greyish colour, white forehead, orange-red eyes surrounded by black and its orangish or chestnut-coloured belly and undertail coverts. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Momentarily, the man paused -- to smile, to catch his breath, to adjust his waistcoat, and, with both hands, to sweep back his wavy chestnut-coloured hair. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As Hadden and others had predicted, the Odedi proved to be a rather plain, short-winged, chestnut-coloured bush warbler. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
And on the local reservoir a pair of mute swans were courting this morning, and the great crested grebes are sporting their breeding plumage of colourful chestnut-coloured ruffs and feathered crests, for all the world like Elizabethan dandies. ❋ Carla (2008)
Workhorses go to pasture, chestnut-coloured, led by their grooms. ❋ Adam Roberts Project (2007)
At his door was seen the mayor with his wide chestnut-coloured droshky and pair — an exceptionally bulky man, who seemed as though cut out of material that had been laid by for a long time. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Her face, under its chestnut-coloured hair, was sharpened and blanched, and there was a look in her eyes that he did not like. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She sat with the collar of her cloak turned up to her chestnut-coloured hair, trying to see his point of view. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She checked the contents of her bag, flung a fringed chestnut-coloured wrap round her shoulders, and left. ❋ Craven, Sara (2001)
He was wearing chestnut-coloured corduroy trousers and a thick white Aran sweater. ❋ Simpson, Dorothy, 1933- (1993)
Cal, still on his knees, threaded his fingers into his hair and stared down at the chestnut-coloured knots in the seat bench in front of him. ❋ Laverty, Bernard Mac (1983)
What disfigured her most was her eyebrows, which were, as it were, peeled and red, with very little hair; she had, however, fine eyelashes, and well-set chestnut-coloured hair. ❋ Various (N/A)
Her eyes were full, black, and sparkling; she had bright, chestnut-coloured hair, and a complexion fresh and blooming. ❋ Various (N/A)
The complexion of the two children was a sort of compromise between the complexions of their parents -- chubby-faced, chestnut-coloured, curly-headed, rollicking little pests, who would never be quiet, and whose little black buttons of eyes were always peering into something, and whose little plugs of fingers would, in spite of every precaution to prevent, be diving into mother's work-box, and various other highly inconvenient and inappropriate places. ❋ Frank J. Webb (N/A)
There was a particular chestnut-coloured crêpe-de-Chine jumper in a shop-window along the Croisette that drew her like a magnet -- her colour, and what a background for her golden amber beads, brought her recently by a patient from Peking. ❋ Alice Campbell (N/A)
Now ... her lovely chestnut-coloured blouse must be peppered with holes. ❋ Alice Campbell (N/A)
At the last minute she changed her "purple body" for one of rich chestnut-coloured silk. ❋ Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)
We failed to get any of the dragonflies seen, and, to the great sorrow of the crews who landed with us, missed capturing a most beautiful chestnut-coloured mouse with a fur tail. ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)
