russet

How To Use russet In A Sentence

• They go in sheep's russet, many great men that might maintain themselves in cloth of gold, and seem to be dejected, humble by their outward carriage, when as inwardly they are swollen full of pride, arrogancy, and self-conceit. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain. The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
• Grandfather sold the russets and the codlings and the pippins from his orchard, and those he didn't sell he stored in his pristine white-washed cellar, where huge black hams and sides of bacon were hanging from black hooks.
• Half of the house, the lower part, was made up of clay bricks of brown or red, while the upper levels was all beige or russet woodwork.
• A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot.
• Autumn has arrived with its frosty build-up of colours of russet and orange trees.
• It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
• It comes in a range of colours from russet to beige, and prices start at £895.
• About half a mile away, starlight finally hit it, revealing a sleek chestnut brown body with ruffled russet red tail feathers.
• Her Italian background blessed her with a clear, dark olive complexion and deep russet hair.