Yellow Ochre

The Virgin sits in an immense yellow-ochre halo, with her son in her arms. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Firmly snapping the door to, she crossed the corridor, with its gloomy, yellow-ochre walls, and its infinite vista of brown, numbered doors. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Batteries of artillery or long columns of cavalry emerged from a filmy world of uneven crystal on to the hard yellow-ochre sand, and took up their positions amid jagged red-black rocks with violet shadows. ❋ WINSTON CHURCHILL (2003)

With a yellow-ochre paint cake he smeared the legs and the breast, great streaks against the background of flour, ash, and turmeric. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The face, daubed and glistening with an unsightly coating of red, white, and yellow-ochre paint, and adorned with protuberant bristles by way of eyebrows, appeared twice its natural dimensions. ❋ Frederic H. Balfour (N/A)

There is something a trifle "animal" in these villages, rough clusters of bee's-comb or ant-heaps or beavers 'lodgings as they might be, assuming exactly the shade of their surroundings, as nests the colour of their hiding-places, or as the kh [= a] ki-coloured sand-lizard, desert-lark, and sand-grouse of the great Sahara take on the yellow-ochre tone of that desert. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

To make it lighter, employ a mixture of yellow-ochre. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

Let the first coat be white, the second half white and half yellow-ochre, and the third yellow-ochre only. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

Clean-cut against a pale yellow-ochre background and enveloped in a deep purple bloom, the mighty peaks of the distant "Rockies" upreared their eternal snow-capped glory in a salute to departing day. ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)

HE terrace of Villa Rosa juts out into the lake, bordered on three sides by a stone parapet, and shaded above by a yellow-ochre awning. ❋ Unknown (1907)

A yellow-ochre blind now screened the lower half of that window. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

The terrace of Villa Rosa juts out into the lake, bordered on three sides by a stone parapet, and shaded above by a yellow-ochre awning. ❋ Jean Webster (1896)

Again a red lava-flow was exposed in its bed and showed heavy upper deposits of grey ashes, with above them a thick layer of yellow-ochre sand (1,300 ft.). ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)