Then his arm was stretched out so that his hand rested on the red-ochred pubic region of the other. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)
Among other things which lay strewed about here, were a spearshaft, eight feet in length, recently made and ochred; parts of old canoes, fragments of their skin-dresses, &c. ❋ Various (N/A)
The smoke swirled and eddied out into the room and hung about the ochred walls, and made more umber than it was before the map of ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
The paint was green, the curtains blue, the window sills and step red-ochred, while a ridiculous little green dog kennel stood beside the door. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1934)
It was gloomy and old - fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye. ❋ Unknown (1913)
It was gloomy and old-fashioned, having low dark shops and dark green house doors with brass knockers, and yellow-ochred doorsteps projecting on to the pavement; then another old shop whose small window looked like a cunning, half-shut eye. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Calais fishers, with painted sabots, and ochred trousers. ❋ Unknown (1906)
As though poor Azoka had not enough misery, her mother took away her trinkets to decorate the bear, and forced her to smear her pretty, ochred face with cinders. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
"She looks as though she had been red-ochred down to her shoulders." ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
It stretches from the Atlantic shore through the whole width of Brazil into Peru, to the very foot of the Andes -- one vast extent of red sandstone, capped by a yellow-ochred clay; not only along the banks of the main river, but forming the sides of those of its tributaries, to their far-off sources, probably over the whole basin of the Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Among other things which lay strewed about here, were a spear-shaft, eight feet in length, recently made and ochred; parts of old canoes, fragments of their skin-dresses, &c. ❋ Unknown (1832)
Animals abound in our earliest art, suggesting that a basic fascination with the bestial community may well be innate; the cave paintings at Lascaux, for example, are an ochred zooanalia of horses, stags, bison, felines, a woolly rhinoceros, a bird, a leaping cow - and only one puny man. ❋ By NATALIE ANGIER (2011)
When well ochred all over, the novice is led away by another native, apart from the rest of the tribe, or if there are more than one, they stand together linked hand in hand, and when tired sit down upon bunches of green boughs brought for that purpose, for they are neither allowed to sit on the ground, nor to have any clothing on; and when they move about they always carry a bunch of green boughs in each hand. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One day the proud son of Empire rules supreme over a whitewashed cantonment complete with red-ochred club, polo, swimming pool, children’s games and Christmas plays, including a historic production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in which he stars as Dopey. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2003)
Person 1: omg I love [your sweater] it’s a cute [colour]
Person 2: it’s called [ochre]
Person 1: it’s mf yellow ❋ Toe God (2018)
“[Oh my god] look at him [he’s] [so mighty], such an Ochre” ❋ BigGhee (2021)
'Omg i [hooked up] with an Ochre, she was [mingin] bruh' ❋ Ellon.co (2014)
