Discoloured

It is, however, a very bad plan, as air and light are particularly necessary to seedling plants; and when they are even partially deprived of these important agents, they become drawn up with weak slender stems, and thin discoloured leaves. ❋ Jane (1845)

With pasta or potatoes, the water is often starchy and with veg such as broccoli, the water can be "discoloured" from the veg itself - so not really suitable for washing stuff. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His face was puffed and discoloured, and his large gray eyes were bitter and bloodshot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They have a parboiled appearance, are afflicted with hang-nails, while the nails are broken and discoloured, and the edges of the quick seem to be assuming a fungoid sort of growth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The nails were discoloured and black, while the skin was already grained with dirt which even a scrubbing-brush could not remove. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Henderson seems the best of the hunters, a slow-going fellow, and hard to rouse; but roused he must have been, for Smoke had a bruised and discoloured eye, and looked particularly vicious when he came into the cabin for supper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was beginning to feel like a pleb; as if I'd lost a bet with a friend with the forfeit being to traipse around the corridors of a hotel in nothing but a discoloured beach towel. ❋ Neil McCarthy (2012)

The afternoon sun is beginning to stream in through the large bayonet windows and you think to yourself how lovely and serene the office looks today when, all of a sudden, the door bursts open and in storms a skinny white man brandishing a tooth brush and wearing nothing but a horribly discoloured beach towel. ❋ Neil McCarthy (2012)

The shoals toward the beach were already white with the churn of water, while those farther out as yet showed no more sign than of discoloured water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tears were running down his puffed and discoloured cheeks, and his face was drawn with pain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A narrow, winding slough; a half tide, exposing mud surfaced with gangrenous slime; the water itself filthy and discoloured by the waste from the vats of a near-by tannery; the marsh grass on either side mottled with all the shades of a decaying orchid; a crazy, ramshackled, ancient wharf; and at the end of the wharf a small, white-painted sloop. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Johnson, as Johnson, was unrecognizable; and not only that, for his features, as human features at all, were unrecognizable, so discoloured and swollen had they become in the few minutes which had elapsed between the beginning of the beating and the dragging forward of the body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A cheap cotton shirt, with frayed collar and a bosom discoloured with what I took to be ancient blood-stains, was put on me amid a running and apologetic fire of comment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The leather binding is flaking and discoloured, the pages are ragged, spotted, and slightly water-stained. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The jaw dropped, the upper lip lifted, and two rows of tobacco-discoloured teeth appeared. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He urged female farmers to plant cleaner rice seeds, those that did not look dirty and discoloured. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Beneath it, there is a patch of brown, discoloured grass, as though the imprint of her body has made an indelible mark on the landscape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The smell of loss, on the landings, on the staircase, and the stucco discoloured by time. ❋ Unknown (2010)