He went upstairs to put on his slippers — his elegant slippers of seal-brown, shaped like medieval shoes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
His sleek seal-brown hair was frosted at the temples; when Hazeltine accused him of bringing this about by artifice, he had grinned and not denied it. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)
But his bonnet was tilted more rakishly on his seal-brown hair than a strict interpretation of rules would have allowed; his frame was draped in a fantastic glittergold version of dress tunic and snowy trousers tucked into handmade beefleather half-boots; the cloak that fluttered behind him glowed with phosphorescent patterns through the chill dusk; and while he strolled, he sang a folk ballad concerning the improbable adventures of a Highland tinker. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1969)
The glow picked out his face, long, narrow, with high cheekbones and gray eyes, seal-brown hair and straight nose. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1965)
"You are looking charming, dear; that seal-brown velvet fits you exquisitely." ❋ Annie Gregg Savigny (N/A)
The horse, a big, splendid seal-brown animal, had fallen on its right side, with its off fore-leg plunged deep in a snow-filled badger-hole. ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)
Shorn of the thick, seal-brown winter hair, the brand was now plainly visible. ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)
But there was no depth in his seal-brown eyes which always seemed to brood; no decision in any move of his ponderous body. ❋ Larry Evans (N/A)
He went upstairs to put on his slippershis elegant slippers of seal-brown, shaped like medieval shoes. ❋ Unknown (1922)
He went upstairs to put on his slippers -- his elegant slippers of seal-brown, shaped like medieval shoes. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Carl invented a game in which he was to run in circles, but not step on the grass; he made the tenth inspection that day of the drying hazelnuts whose husks were turning to seal-brown on the woodshed roof; he hunted for a good new bottle to throw at Irving Lamb's barn; he mended his sling-shot; he perched on a sawbuck and watched the street. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
You go behind the screen with your ballot paper in your hand, and there you find a seal-brown pencil tied with a chaste white string. ❋ Unknown (1915)
It always gave me a very luxurious and Empressy sort of feeling to see myself arrayed, if only experimentally, in silver-fox and plucked beaver and fisher, to feel the soft pelts and observe how well one's skin looked above seal-brown or shaggy bear. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
At such times he leaned his elbows on the counter, curved one hand about the porcelain bowl of his pipe, lost the other in the depths of his great seal-brown beard, and fell into staring reveries. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
A half-dozen pushes will remove a little patch of hair; twice as many more will scrape away half as much of the seal-brown grain, exposing the white of the hide. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
He was a comical seal-brown dog, covered with compact tight curls all over his body. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Caressing the seal-brown head with a gentle hand, and apparently speaking to the soft eyes that looked up at him so understandingly, the man said, ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)
Resting a seal-brown head, with its long silky ears, confidently upon the stranger's knee, the dog looked up into the man's face with an expression of hearty good-fellowship in his soft, golden-brown eyes that was irresistible. ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)
Adelia was getting her clothes ready; she was to be married in seal-brown cashmere; Vinnie Lawrence at Valley Centre was making it for her; she had got a new hat with a long ostrich plume; some said white, some said grey. ❋ Unknown (1908)
