Honey Coloured

Now and then she would stop to shake her head, toss her smooth honey-coloured plaits over her shoulders, and screw her face into a caricature Aunt Etta's expression. ❋ Bill Lucey (2012)

Sightings suggest it walks upright like a human, its body is covered with black or honey-coloured hair, and it may have a long mane of hair from its head down its back. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rich, honey-coloured and almost brandy-like in texture, it lit a warm fire down my gullet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Walk across the cobbled streets of Oxford, past the walls of its honey-coloured colleges, and it appears the university is still the academic power it has been for centuries. ❋ Jamie Doward (2010)

He looked left and saw a young girl in a summery dress, a girl with honey-coloured hair and a straight-backed walk, walking away from the house of the Mysteress. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Holly Bush Inn is an understated, honey-coloured boozer with a giant open range, flagstone floors and a piano that actually gets played (01434 240391, hollybushinn. net). ❋ Nell Card (2010)

"Eat, and thank Providence for such delights as this, which you infidels call ambrosia," says he, while one of his women put the dish of honey-coloured curds before me. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Like the pantiles of North Yorkshire or the honey-coloured stone of Bath, they are not there by accident. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even more noteworthy is Beechworth's coherent street­scape, partially because honey-coloured local granite was used as a building material. ❋ Hels (2009)

You are twenty-one, a writer with prospects and honey-coloured hair. ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)

I have thought of you often these past forty-eight hours, wandering in violet valleys with your honey-coloured hair, pursuing our enquiries and Mademoiselle Gabrielle de la Tourbillon with equal zeal—and, I trust, with equal success. ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)

He took the idea for his own and rewarded me by telling me that my pale yellow hair was also misnamed: it was, in truth, honey-coloured. ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)