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.

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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.
It has 30 percent fewer carbs and higher protein than russet potatoes (the biggest selling variety in the United States).
Will was loved for his vivid colors, the creation colors of the Edenlike islands, including the urinous mango-juice yellow, green from crushed hibiscus leaves, dusty purple from wild plum trees on Java, and a peculiar russet in his _Country Road_, _Kamuela_ was a pigment of red clay he had scraped from the very earth he had depicted. Beard
Our native British trees are changing leaf colour in a modest, unhurried fashion, achieving no more than soft, undramatic russets, yellows and ochres before the leaves fall away to leave bare branches stroking the sky.
And, as the seasons change, so do the colours - carpets of yellow daffodils in the spring to the russet browns and reds of autumn, so now is a great time to visit.
Across the surface of a vast upland plateau stretched the plains of Maras, fallow fields of gold and russet, broken by hedgerows of agave and patches of brown earth where oxen and ploughmen had been. One River
In lines later excised at Charles Lamb's urging, the poem's speaker goes on to chastise Susan as a "Poor Outcast" (perhaps a prostitute, then no uncommon condition) who should return to her father's rustic home and, having replaced her fancy loomed dress for a "plain russet" home-spun gown, once again hear a "thrush sing from a tree of its own" (17-20). 'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
Her hair was sun-scorched, long, tendrilly, her dress a metallic sheath of gold that turned russet when the silk moved across her hips. The End of the Pier
As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones.
They are grown for the beautiful colours of their foliage: lemony green, pink, plum, cerise, chocolate, russet and flame.
He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
Now we're sixty, and the sunset is neither russet nor gold, but the shadows of dead trees are lovely tonight. The Secret Life
The sight of glazed russet crocks bearing chunky chicken scarpariello, steamy bowls of cioppino, and baked calamari gives an unexpected pleasure.
appley" scale and had the same outstanding texture of the russet: firm, yet just soft enough to have relinquished itself to the pie. Serious Eats
Oh, if you're easily amused, go over to Peter David's blog where he's running segments of a thing called Potato Moon, which is a parody of a fan sequel to Stephenie Meyers 'Twilight books (as well as a parody of the originals); this book, titled Russett Moon, got its author into legal trouble, whereafter she proclaimed some New Agey stuff about the global gestalt mind ... which is where PAD comes into it. Sinking feelings aboard the Seaview
It was early September and the bushes were a dazzling palette of scarlet, orange, russet, blue and green.
The hot summer is set to produce a stunning autumn with falling leaves of red, russet browns and gold, according to a conservation group.
A boy of about nineteen years patted the flank of a dark russet brown horse with a black mane and tail.
We'd bring our apples in burlap sacks, whatever we had, Macs, Baldwins, Spies, some Russets if we were lucky, some wild apples for pungency from the woods and hedgerows.
In East Asia, the color red is associated with luck and happiness, so it's no surprise that dishes featuring red ingredients--such as the small, russet-colored bean known as the azuki--are consumed as part of the 15 days of festivities beginning the year. Mika Ono: Bringing in the Chinese New Year With Festive Holiday Rice and Beans
His clothes were brown and gray and russet, and his hands were pink like the flesh of some rabbit a hawk had just plucked up.
Deledda thought that the best Christmas gift she ever got was a moufflon, the shorthaired grayish-brown or russet wild sheep native to Sardinia and Corsica. Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
From carpets of yellow daffodils in the spring, to the russet browns of autumn.
He was extremely pale, but had the most gorgeous russet hair and hazel eyes.
Whitebeam trees now have many yellow or russet leaves and bright red, egg-shaped berries on them. Times, Sunday Times
The exhibition's first gallery, with russet and black walls, is lined with customary atrium furnishings: marble statues of men and women, gracefully draped in togas, who might represent the family's ancestors; a marble table supported by four carved griffons; and frescoes depicting Dionysus/Bacchus with his golden drinking cup and the wind god Zephyrus with outspread wings. The Gracious Art of Living
The leaves of various deciduous trees will be forming carpets of gold and russet throughout the season.
The earliest conquistadors in the 1500s, who knew only the brownish madders and russets of the Old World, were dazzled by these Aztec reds; nothing back home could match their fiery intensity.
For instance, how could the silver of the dew-cloud, and golden weft of sunrise, playing through the dapples of a partly wooded glen, do better (in the matter of variety) than frame a pretty moving figure in a pink checked frock, with a skirt of russet murrey, and a bright brown hat? Mary Anerley
An undulating ribbon of silver weaves through the work's russet background while the coppery trunklike shapes edged with white suggest sunlight filtered through dense foliage.
With its palette of cream and russet, the room couldn't have been more soothing, and the black-and-white photographs of local landmarks that adorned the walls were covetable.
I brought Russet back in, stamped my feet on the rug, and took off his leash.
Then, a crested bunting, neat in russet and black and pointy crest comes down to drink, and makes your evening.
As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones.
Beautiful, for it is a ridge surrounded by mountains -- or "mountings" -- of gold and green, russet and silver. Letters of Franklin K. Lane
Her dark russet hair was tied back, and her soft brown eyes were concentrated on some unseen thing.
Every shade of auburn, russet and tan shone through and seemed to make him look almost angelic.
He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot. The Alhambra
Art is everywhere, in the museums, galleries or churches, but also in the stonework, on carved doorways, on plinths and balconies, and in the soft light that evening casts across the pink and russet walls and towers.
Kept clipped as a hedge, beech keeps its leaves year round - green in summer, turning to russet in autumn.
They are grown for the beautiful colours of their foliage: lemony green, pink, plum, cerise, chocolate, russet and flame.
They are grown for the beautiful colours of their foliage: lemony green, pink, plum, cerise, chocolate, russet and flame.
It has a kiln and rows of pots, russet red and deep blue, sometimes overlain with painted flowers. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The leaves of various deciduous trees will be forming carpets of gold and russet throughout the season.
You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
The soup ends up an autumnal russet colour, stupendous with a garnish of diced avocado, lime and coriander. Times, Sunday Times
Fair or russet leather shoes and boots were also authorized.
Last summer she had watched the colours changing, from green to amethyst, to purple, to russet. THE GOLDEN LION
Kwaque blossomed out resplendent in russet-brown shoes, a derby hat, and a gray suit with trousers immaculately creased. CHAPTER XVIII
Sculpted by the raking light, the bathers are russet and gold in the sun, vibrant in blue and red two-piece swimsuits, trunks, a maillot, absorbed in the folding of towels and blankets.
They may have eaten a Victoria plum, though I doubt they'll have gnawed on a Russet.
The heather on the hill came in deep russet tones of glory defeated, and the withered bracken with tints of gold, all gaining a double brilliancy from the liquid medium that returned their image. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
He was wearing narrow black trousers, with a matching rollneck sweater, and carrying a russet waterproof jacket over one arm. Rome's Revenge
Russet, the second or middle tertiary colour, is, like citrine, constituted ultimately of the three primaries, red, yellow, and blue; but with this difference -- instead of yellow as in citrine, the archeus or predominating colour in russet is red, to which yellow and blue are subordinates. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
He then took four French ells of a coarse brown russet cloth, and therein apparelling himself, as with a long, plain-seamed, and single-stitched gown, left off the wearing of his breeches, and tied a pair of spectacles to his cap. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Last summer she had watched the colours changing, from green to amethyst, to purple, to russet. THE GOLDEN LION
One little piece of chocolate goes into a large casserole full of rich dark brown and russet chillies.
The first soldier, the one who had gone to retrieve my riding gear, met up with us soon afterwards, handing me first my dark brown cloak with the russet lining, as well as the pair of high boots.
The Canvasback is a medium-sized duck with an elegant pattern of black, russet, and white.
I glanced out the window once again, and while it was not massive blob of russet, it still blended to beige.
Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
His long hair was held back by a tubular weave of dull gold silk ribbons, and he wore a sheer tunic in palest russet oversewn with bands of velvet of a green so dark it was nearly black. Tran Siberian
The threshold of the door was decorated with gold and silver, while the russet, wood door was trimmed with diamonds along the small sliver of crystal window.
With keen expectations we launched down the russet-skinned river the morning next, and within minutes rounded a bend and purled into a bloat of snorting hippos. Peter Guber: African Water Rights in DeNile
Every shade of auburn, russet and tan shone through and seemed to make him look almost angelic.
It was a twelve-foot Fire Angel that had just enteredrusset-colored, with wings like stained-glass windowsand, along with intimations of mortality, it brought me recollections of a praying mantis, with a spiked collar and thornlike claws protruding through its short fur at every suggestion of an angle. Sign of Chaos
The trees have nearly lost their leaves, now scattered in russet showers, about their roots, while the branches are drawn in shadowy lines by the autumn sun upon the bleached grass and withering foliage with which it is strewn. Rural Hours
The ground was fairly free of undergrowth, the anemones sprinkled, there was a bush or two, elder, or guelder-rose, and a purplish tangle of bramble: the old russet of bracken almost vanished under green anemone ruffs. Lady Chatterley's Lover
I wore a beige corset with a russet midriff jacket over it and a sarong that reached my ankles with auburn boots.
Not one, not two, but 2,300 varieties of Britain's favourite fruit grow here, all deliciously arranged across acres of russety Kentish downland.
The tough rind, pale russet in colour, is very bitter, as is the covering of the three seeds.
There were crisp husks of beechmast and cast acorn cups underfoot in the russet slime of dead bracken where the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approaching winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezed it tight. Archive 2004-12-01
In brisk tall weather, the glossy leaves turn yellow, red, and finally russet brown.
The dark mahogany paneling and russet carpeting complemented each other while the brass ornaments and paintings were beautiful accents.
Sculpted by the raking light, the bathers are russet and gold in the sun, vibrant in blue and red two-piece swimsuits, trunks, a maillot, absorbed in the folding of towels and blankets.
She scrambled into shorts and T-shirt, tamed her thick russet waves by tying them back in a ponytail.
There are so many variations on red and brown and russet and gold and rust and orange and chestnut and tan… no wonder we have so many different names for colors!
Drawing on the functional spirit of the wash house, new parts are executed in taut, Kahnian planes of russet brick and sensuous copper which will patinate gracefully and gradually over time.
Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.
We're thinking we might be able to compromise on russet.
Carol stared out of the window at the fat russet buds on the tree outside. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He casts the royal coachman - white wings and russet hackle, pheasant tippits and peacock herl - to feign the nymph and summon rainbows from a shadow world.
The building materials? the rosy bricks, the russet hanging tiles, the massive oak beams, even the iron for hinges and latches? would have come from within a five-mile radius, which is why the house feels like a natural outcrop of the hummocky Sussex Wealden landscape in which it sits. Hancox: All under one roof
He wore the uniform of the Terran Army: russet brown, with red trimming.
Nephrite and jadeite, the former in colours of white, yellow, russet and green were used in the making of unique little bottles.
'Now you may go, poor robin!' he said, opening the cap; but instead of a bird, out sprang a little man dressed in russet-brown, and looking as if he were an hundred years old. Granny's Wonderful Chair
Beans, blueberries, cranberries, Russet potatoes, artichokes, pecans and cinnamon top the list.
Non - russet sprouts can arise from completely russet apples.
It matures early in October with an attractive russet colour.
Sunset was turning high streaks of wind-blown clouds into wisps of pink and russet gold, the horizon lost behind the hills cupping the valley.
California "fuchsia"- epilobum species and varieties - and bush monkeyflowers are still blooming, as are several of the buckwheats, from scarlet through rich yellow to white or peachy russet. SFGate: Top News Stories
The forage cap became the service cap, and the blouse became the pocketed service coat, worn with pegged breeches, leggings, and russet footwear.
The closely related soapberry, sometimes also called russet buffaloberry, is S. canadensis.
The rising sun was behind her, still barely a glow over the horizon turning the streamers of clouds above it russet and gold.
The third was the russet of a vixen's coat, and the sleeves and hem were dagged and decorated with cutwork embroidery as delicate as lace; the belt that went with this was of gold-embroidered leather. The Eagle And The Nightingale
Try to resist this description: The medlar, which resembles a russeted crabapple with an open blossom end, is a pome fruit, kin to apples and pears, and most closely related to hawthorns. Lunch Room Chatter: Produce is not downloadable
Her smoothly curling russet hair tumbled down her back, and beneath the white veil he saw her eyes, wide and brown, rimmed with thick, dark lashes.
One wore a coat of black and silver marten fur, the other a coat of some russet-red fur Lirael didn't recognize. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Some perennials change their leaves to gold or russet in autumn, while others stay evergreen, thus making the garden enjoyable and adding interest in the fall and winter months.
I like to collect russet autumn leaves.
Autumn's colors are deep and rich - russet, crimson, burnt orange, gold, dark green, and the color of hay.
Nephrite and jadeite, the former in colours of white, yellow, russet and green were used in the making of unique little bottles.
Outside of its formidable-looking fortress, it had little else to recommend it being mostly covered with the scraggry brush known as dwarf-shrub, so named because it looked somewhat like a dwarfs thick, russet beard and because once it dug its way into the coralite, it was almost impossible to uproot. The Hand of Chaos
And the crowning glory, the "green" sedum roof – actually more of a russet colour – on the Newton building, which acts as a natural insulator, helps prevents flash flooding and provides a haven for birds, bees and butterflies. The Green League university tables
When he spoke, it was coarse was new proclamations. brown russet cloth; so little When he sung, it was peas in it was like crimson silk, with cods. which Parisatis desired that When he evacuated, it was mush - the words of such as spoke to rooms and morilles. her son Cyrus, King of Persia, When he puffed, it was cabbages should be interwoven. with oil, alias caules amb'olif. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
The best of the entrées I tried here was thin fillets of skate wing, fried until they were beautifully crisp and russety brown.
Gone were the chilly winds, rich gold and russet colours and fresh sunshine of late summers, chased away by grey skies and a thin layer of crackling white frost glazing solemn pavements.
In deep, dark blues and fiery russets, his wild, icebound vistas look almost cold enough to burn. This week's new exhibitions
There was a crowd of little men and women, some clad in russet color, but far more in green, dancing around a little well as clear as crystal. Granny's Wonderful Chair
Scarlet and russet and violet and blue and pink and orange jostled and quarrelled in the beds outside. SANDS OF TIME
= -- On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown. Handbook of the Trees of New England
He was an undersized senior with spiked auburn hair and russet eyes.
Over a yielding brown carpet they went among maple and chestnut and oak, with their bewildering changes through crimson, russet, and amber to pale yellow; under the deep-stained leaves of the sweet-gum they went, and past the dogwood with scarlet berries gemming the clusters of its dim red leaves. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
We must have it brought here bodily," said Queen Wantall; but the chair was silent, and a lady and two noble squires, clad in russet-colored satin and yellow buskins, the like of which had never been seen at that court, rose up and said – Granny's Wonderful Chair
The bird's colors range from lavender and light and dark blue through green, russet, yellow and orange.
The soup ends up an autumnal russet colour, stupendous with a garnish of diced avocado, lime and coriander. Times, Sunday Times
Russet and grey still prevail in the recently gale-thrashed boughs.
Muttering under my breath, I chose a pair of russet trousers, a cream poloneck angora and lambswool jumper and a tweedy jacket. KICK BACK
They were like little men, about four feet high, walking upright, but clad in russet hair. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
Baking potatoes, also called russet potatoes the most famous is the Idaho, are high in starch and come out fluffy and light when they are baked. SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS
Red is the archeus, or principal colour in the tertiary _russet_; enters subordinately into the two other tertiaries, _citrine_ and _olive_; goes largely into the composition of the various hues and shades of the semi-neutral _marrone_ or chocolate, and its relations, puce, murrey, morelle, mordore, pompadour, &c.; and is more or less present in Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Memaw always used peeled russets, mustard, Miracle Whip (mayonaise just doesn't have the same tanginess), chopped sweet pickles (relish doesn't have the same crunch) a little pickle juice, and always some of that mornings bacon (crumbled up) with some of the drippings, along with a small jar of drained pimentoes and chopped hard boiled eggs. Texas potato salad, what is it? | Homesick Texan
I am not discussing the difference between russet and terracotta, any more.
Has it ever occurred to you to ask the question, what effect the cottage would have upon your feelings if it had _no roof_? no visible roof, I mean; -- if instead of the thatched slope, in which the little upper windows are buried deep, as in a nest of straw -- or the rough shelter of its mountain shales -- or warm coloring of russet tiles -- there were nothing but a flat leaden top to it, making it look like a large packing-case with windows in it? Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
In the fall, look for the trees to turn russet, bronze, or deep red.
You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
As you walk along the rides at this time of the year you can see the wonderful glow of red and scarlet oaks, the luminous yellows of lime and tulip trees, and the russet, orange and gold of maples and Persian ironwood.
I miss my fave apple: a gold/green variety with a bit of blush and some russetting. An Observation That Probably Doesn’t Merit Its Own Entry, But Damn It, It’s My Blog and I Can Do What I Want, So Stop Looking at Me Like That « Whatever
Central Park was dappled in red, russet, and gold.
She had russet colored hair that turned a dull red in the lamplight.
Horsemen mount, to hasten their dawn-lit stock through a wood of russet and silver.
The Norfolk Royal Russet is a new apple with rich flavour and scent.
The scenery around Loch Linnhe is normally magnificent at this time of year, but last week the gold and russet-brown colours of the Lochaber hills were hidden by the low clouds which wreathed Fort William in grey.
Thy cousin, the trout, in his purple and gold with crimson spots, wears a more splendid armour than thy russet and silver mottled with black, but thine is the kinglier nature. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
She swung her slim russet-shod feet above the brook and looked at him with a touch of _gaminerie_ new to her and to him. The Younger Set
When he spoke, it was coarse was new proclamations. brown russet cloth; so little When he sung, it was peas in it was like crimson silk, with cods. which Parisatis desired that When he evacuated, it was mush - the words of such as spoke to rooms and morilles. her son Cyrus, King of Persia, When he puffed, it was cabbages should be interwoven. with oil, alias caules amb’olif. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It comes in a range of colours from russet to beige, and prices start at £895.
In another place, he says, "some transformed themselves to rogues, others to ruffians, some others to Clownes, a fourth to fools; the rogues were ready, the ruffians were rude, theyr Clownes cladde as well with country condition, as in ruffe russet; theyr fooles as fond as might be. A History of Pantomime
Given over entirely to a celebration of painting, it is more or less bisected at a diagonal of golden russet dappling on a field of hyacinth blue, and suffused with ambient light.
Cars drive on to the beach and disappear towards the russet-coloured cliffs; a hardy soul casts a line.
The trees were all shades of russet, gold, and jade.
Some varieties perish; but the ranker, hardier kinds, like the northern spy, the greening, or the black apple, or the russet, or the pinnock, how they ripen and grow in grace, how the green becomes gold, and the bitter becomes sweet! Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
Rather would we choose the "russet Yeas and honest kersey Noes" of sturdy yeoman speech; and cheerfully taking the head of our well-stocked table, ask in homely terms that Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
That this point might be cleared up, the tomb was opened in 1832 in the presence of the Dean, and there the king was found in perfect preservation, and bearing a close resemblance to the effigy on the monument -- "the nose elevated, the beard thick and matted, and of a deep russet colour, and the jaws perfect, with all the teeth in them, except one foretooth. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
Never mind that the Maine ‘peanut’ fetches pennies on the dollar compared with the mighty Idaho #1 Russett Burbank, but they'd probably be better off sticking to fiddleheads.

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