Sandbrook notes that the 70s in Britain have become "synonymous with the colour brown", which is certainly how I recall them: Vesta instant curries, Watneys Red Barrel, faux-velvet wallpaper, fawn-coloured nylon sheets. ❋ Francis Wheen (2010)
Behind the Riley was Sergeant Yellich's fawn-coloured Escort, modest by comparison, and behind that was the police car with the blue flashing light on its roof. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So the nasturtiums of Henri Fantin-Latour are hot-headed and impatient to rise to the fawn-coloured skies; while those of that highly intelligent and overlooked impressionist Gustav Caillebotte are veined and shy and persuasively wayward. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Suddenly they saw what appeared to be cat-like beast with a black face, fawn-coloured body and busy, black tail just 200 yards away. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She nodded agreement, picked up her scarlet bag and wrapped a long fawn-coloured scarf round her shoulders. ❋ Hamilton, Peter F. (2007)
Huge fawn-coloured eyes peered innocently out of the shadows, projecting a girlish innocence complemented by a perpetual ingénue effervescence into the gaiafield. ❋ Hamilton, Peter F. (2007)
He said: "He says: A fawn-coloured heifer, pure and rich in tone, the admiration of beholders!" ❋ News From Mad Plato (2006)
And if Bogey had ever come to London, which was against his principles, this was undoubtedly the outfit he would have selected: a mangled go-anywhere, wash-it-yourself, fawn-coloured tropical suit with a Fair Isle sleeveless pullover and buckskin shoes with the nap worn off. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)
All fawn-coloured stallions, sleek — their manes to their knees, their tails to their hoofs .... ❋ Unknown (2006)
A woman had come out in a cream-coloured frock, and was moving away under a fawn-coloured parasol. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nearly half an hour he sat there before she came down the spiral stairs in fawn-coloured tweeds and hat, with a calfskin fur coat over her arm. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She wore a fawn-coloured sleeveless jumper and skirt, and her arms and cheeks were fully as brown. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The fawn-coloured cow, with eyes as soft and brown as ❋ Unknown (2004)
And now it was like riding, to be rushing up Whitehall; and to each movement of the omnibus the beautiful body in the fawn-coloured coat responded freely like a rider, like the figure-head of a ship, for the breeze slightly disarrayed her; the heat gave her cheeks the pallor of white painted wood; and her fine eyes, having no eyes to meet, gazed ahead, blank, bright, with the staring incredible innocence of sculpture. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Their heads were crowned with a black plume, their wings streaked with black, the short feathers of a golden colour edged with white; the back of their necks a light flesh-colour, their breasts fawn-coloured, and their eyes red. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They are already becoming lighter than the plain; they are fawn-coloured. ❋ WINSTON CHURCHILL (2003)
On the lonely, fawn-coloured water, one sail was blowing. ❋ Unknown (2003)
