How To Use Tawny In A Sentence

Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII
So that ghostly form that appears in front of your car at night may very well be a tawny.
Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze. The Sun

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Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Coming back to True North we see two large tawny nurse sharks circling the back of the boat. Times, Sunday Times
The males have great lionlike manes of tawny fur.
She glanced up to the heights of the castle battlements and saw a tall, tawny haired figure upon the uppermost heights.
_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
You can outfly a Tawny if you stay above the tree line, but you must on no account attempt it. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Other possible wildlife you may encounter in the area are boobok owls, tawny frogmouths, and wambengers.
This is where modern California was born, when 19 th-century gold seekers swarmed across these tawny hillsides seeking treasure.
Port that has been left to age in wooden casks for six or more years begins to take on a tawny colour and a soft, silky character as the phenolics are polymerized.
Lions vary in colour from nearly white to deep ochre brown but tawny yellow is the commonest shade.
The yellow Spring sun, like liquid honey, fell in benediction on the leafless trees, big with buds, and on the tawny mat of grass through which the blue noses of anemones were sticking. Purple Springs
Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze. The Sun
It is most often used to flavor mulligatawny soup.
In summer, the wapiti's coat is sleek and tawny brown, with a large buff-coloured rump patch.
I have seen this with lions and with tawny owls; being a defender is far more natural to us all. Times, Sunday Times
A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step.
The colour palette encompasses charcoal greys, tawny autumnal greens, silver and white.
Some Negro slaves were brought to Europe by the Spaniards in the fourteenth century, and a small trade was continued by the Portuguese, who conquered territory from the "tawny" Moors of North Africa in the early fifteenth century. The Negro
Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze. The Sun
The day of your destiny's over and the star of your fate is in the mullagatawny. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
Then the shipmen call upon the sons of great Zeus with vows of white lambs, going to the forepart of the prow; but the strong wind and the waves of the sea lay the ship under water, until suddenly these two are seen darting through the air on tawny wings. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
_ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
The toadstool is tawny yellow, and produces white spores; the gills are decurrent, and the stem bears a ring. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
It's a complex drink and though the main distinctions are vintage, tawny and ruby, numerous subtleties range in between.
`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
_ Head and thorax with bright silvery tomentum, facialia without bristles, epistoma slightly prominent; eyes bare; mouth black, testaceous towards the base, full as long as the thorax; antennæ tawny, not reaching the epistoma, arista plumose; legs black, coxæ and femora testaceous; wings grey, veins black. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
A large, ferocious cat. Panthera pardus)of Africa and southern Asia, having either tawny fur with dark rosettelike markings or black fur.
From the Monterey pine belt to bristlecone country, conifers yield cones whose tawny beauty is worth celebrating.
A little coy now, Alicia sat down on the edge of her mother's bed and began haltingly, ‘Well… we had mulligatawny soup to start with, veal cutlets and leeks au gratin as a main course, Baked Alaska for dessert, followed by coffee.
Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
I come up out of the low ground onto the highway and I'm imagining I see antelope at play - I can't help it, it's the wind moving the tawny wheat.
Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Buzzard, Buteo buteo, I read in the AA guide to British Birds, a hardback with a beautiful picture of a tawny owl on the cover, which you can still find in many homes. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Each year, dozens of reports come in from people who believe they have seen large, tawny colored cats in states where no such animals are officially documented. David Mizejewski: Wild Cougar Confirmed in Connecticut
The best view of a tawny owl one is likely to get is when driving up to a country house at night. Times, Sunday Times
He was called tawny because from his frequent walks in the blaze of the sun his face had become much sun-burnt. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Children were thrilled to be able to stroke a beautiful barn owl, while an enormous eagle owl, a tawny owl, a kestrel and a turkey vulture called George looked on.
Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
In the first act, called ‘Big Sky,’ to music by Aaron Copland, ghosts of pioneers emerge from the spacious, tawny earth.
One day a can of mullagatawny soup and a can of apricots were handed out to him simultaneously and without explanations. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
The fierce glisten of the candle caught the kitten's tawny eyes as she looked up.
Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Although tawny owls are reputed to have a hoot, this one whistled, which is probably why it is often referred to in the books as a screech owl.
Head chalybeous; antennæ red; legs tawny, hind tibiæ piceous towards the tips, hind tarsi piceous towards the base; wings blackish, darker along the costa, cinereous towards the tips with the exception of the costa; halteres testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
We will not, then, malign our river as gross and impure, while it can glorify itself with so adequate a picture of the Heaven that broods above it; or, if we remember its tawny hue and the muddiness of its bed, let it be a symbol that the earthliest human soul has an infinite spiritual capacity, and may contain the better world within its depths. Mosses from an Old Manse
Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
The Barn Owl is a gray-and-tawny owl with a white, heart-shaped face and dark eyes.
All of which makes this new soup and juice bar in Edinburgh's William Street an extremely diverting place to enjoy a cup of gourmet mulligatawny or a cappuccino.
-- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
It’s just the idea of parsnip in a mulligatawny which I rather balk at. Chris Neill's Dirty Kitchen
The call of a young tawny owl. Times, Sunday Times
Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. ZooBorns
White floccose scales on cap (var. coroniferum) and appendiculate veil; caps whitish or brown, tawny, or tinge of ochre. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
As Eve and her friends lingered yet a moment there, watching the picturesque figure splashing barelegged in the shallow water, one of the droll little craft known as Joppa-chaises came up beside them, a fulvous face appeared at its helm, a tawny hand was extended, and they left The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
However, instead of wavy tawny hair, his was straight and golden brown.
Other kinds of sweet wine are forms of fortified wines and ripaso-style wines, such as vin santo or succulent tawny ports.
The wood of this cartouche is the same as that of the basilisks upon the arms, being very hard and close-grained, and of a tawny, yellow hue, like boxwood. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
At their feet their naked progeny played and squabbled, or rolled in the muck with the tawny wolf-dogs. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
With your organic Stilton, he recommends a single vintage tawny port. Times, Sunday Times
Bonelli's eagle, the tawny eagle, the brown fish-owl, the rock horned-owl, the raven, the amadavat and the white-throated munia. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
Only a tin of mulligatawny soup has saved me from immeasurable personal pain.
He had hair so black there was a blue sheen to it, and his eyes were an odd, bright green with a flash of tawny in the center, his skin an even golden brown tan.
Bebel attracts a five-star clientele and its drinks list, which has more than 60 cocktails, contains many high-end and rare spirits: the Donna Prugna features cognac from Charente in south-west France, 10-years-aged tawny port, and ginger beer, and you'll find drinks featuring cognac from Grande Champagne and Italian choice vodka from the region of Ghemme. 10 of the best cocktail bars in Berlin
The park has populations of 20 open habitat bird species that are considered to be endangered, including hyacinth macaw Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (VU), rufous-sided pygmy-tirant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus (VU), black-bellied seedeater Sporophila hypochroma (NT) and black-and-tawny seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa (EN). Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia
They deployed into the teeth of a furious dust storm that ended in thunder and rain and left tents flattened and Kuwait City covered in tawny dust and mud.
Two are "tawny" and two are grey and white, like their ma. MI, 10 Cent Refund
These "tawny" colored inks I estimate were products obtained from the "thorn" trees spoken of by the monk Theophilus. Forty Centuries of Ink
Tawny golden was she, with golden-brown eyes, and her hair that fell to her knees was blue-black and straight, with just the curly tendrilly tendency that gives to woman's hair its charm. THE PRINCESS
Antennæ tawny, arista white; thorax and abdomen with bright silvery tomentum; tarsi whitish testaceous; wings limpid, veins pale. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers.
If you want to protect a population of tawny owls, all (all! Times, Sunday Times
The thistles, sorrel and prickly lettuce have set seed in the midvalley; wild asters, sunflowers, and chamisa are blooming, the grasses catch and hold the mellowing sunlight in their tawny seedheads and the color transformation on the north facing slopes has started. Aspen Times - Top Stories
I had hoped to see a few forest butterflies such as tawny, hackberry emperors, red admirals, or even goatweed leafwings, along the Loop Trail, but no such luck. Museum Blogs
a pickle, being of a tawny and somewhat livid color; and the bone then begins to sphacelate, and turns black where it was white before, and at last becomes pale and blanched. On Injuries Of The Head
Here in this broad window, foregathered in a congress of colours designed to appetise, are the ripe fruits of every clime and every season: the Southern pomegranate beside the hardy Northern apple, scarlet and yellow; the early strawberry and the late ruddy peach; figs from the Orient and pines from the Antilles; dates from Tunis and tawny persimmons from Japan; misty sea-green grapes and those from the hothouse -- tasteless, it is true, but so lordly in their girth, and royal purple; portly golden oranges and fat plums; pears of mellow blondness and pink-skinned apricots. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
Wulfgar turned to face her, lifting a tawny brow in mockery as he watched her lips tighten and her eyes narrow. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
`With admirable virtue for cleansing the skin from all discolour, such as sunburn, freckles, swarthy, yellow, or tawny colour. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band.
Instead of blue, her eyes were a deep, tawny brown that complemented her tanned skin.
Young tawny owls are out and about and can sometimes be seen in daytime. Times, Sunday Times
He couldn't believe she wasn't a local - her rich, dark brown hair and tawny skin could've fooled anyone.
Then one night he thought he saw her enter the crowded hall, the leonine sweep of tawny hair, and his heart missed a beat. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
His tawny beard concealed a jaw underhung, a chin jutting and dangerous. Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1
The 16 paintings in the British Birds in Watercolour exhibition at Nunnington were completed over the past year and feature game birds grouse, partridge and woodcock as well as kingfisher, robin, whitethroat and tawny owl.
The batter looks just keen and the creamed sugar and shortening, evaporated milk and malted milk powder fluffs into tawny copper peaks.
He devoted over 14 pages to the matter, treating also several other words galimatias, salmagundi, salmi, etc. — even Hamlet's 'miching malicho' and the Anglo-Indian mulligatawny which he perceived to be connected by the root 'ma', meaning in his opinion a small bird or chicken and serving as an important piece of evidence for the previous existence of a language, possibly older than Sanskrit, which had already been lost in medieval times but which was the source of numerous words used in the kitchen. Languagehat.com: MA, A SMALL BIRD.
A medium sweet fortified red wine rather like a tawny Port. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
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`With admirable virtue for cleansing the skin from all discolour, such as sunburn, freckles, swarthy, yellow, or tawny colour. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Delighting Wes and Maggie, they also brought with them a long-haired tawny puppy, a briard named Raye. Roadside Crosses
The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step.
An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
Tawny golden was she, with golden-brown eyes, and her hair that fell to her knees was blue-black and straight, with just the curly tendrilly tendency that gives to woman's hair its charm. THE PRINCESS
Photodilus seem not to have been investigated, but it has been found to want the tarsal loop, as well as the manubrial process, while its clavicles are not joined in a furcula, nor do they meet the keel, and the posterior margin of the sternum has processes and fissures like the tawny section. The Country House
She was pale, late thirties or so, with dark wiry hair spiked straight up in a tall, scary crew cut, and tawny skin.
Face with snow-white tomentum on each side; thorax with four hoary stripes; pectus with a cinereous disk; scutellum pale luteous; abdomen pale luteous at the base, and with a broad interrupted pale luteous band on the second segment, third and fourth segments somewhat chalybeous, the former livid along the fore border, under side with two lateral abbreviated pale luteous stripes; hind femora thick; wings grey, veins towards the base, and halteres, tawny. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
You can outfly a Tawny if you stay above the tree line, but you must on no account attempt it. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Well-priced lunch items include an appealingly peppery mulligatawny soup, the appetizer of the day and basmati rice.
Later comes a young greenkeeper carrying a very long, supple, tawny cane: he swishes it all over the circle of dewy grass in deft half-moons, sending up a shower of diamondy drops at every stroke. Try Anything Twice
His fingertips whispered down her stomach to disturb the tawny nest at the top of her thighs with flirtatious strokings. Breakfast In Bed
'That would not signify so much,' said Carr, 'if the man was honest; but I may say to you, that, under the most specious professions of honesty, I don't believe there is a more crafty or mercenary head in Westminster Hall, than that orange tawny caxon his covers. The Old Manor House
Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze. The Sun
II. v--- In Egypt, Cleo wonders with her ladies how to keep Antony in a same approach as "I will betray/Tawny-finn'd fishes [on] my bended hook. Archive 2009-11-01
This is basically a vintage wine that has been aged in oak like a Tawny.
It is wise in the hot weather to pull the purdah, which is the Indian way of saying to shut the door, in the face of a young and unattached girl with a tawny head and opalescent eyes; especially if the dust has long been undisturbed upon the threshold of the secret places of the male heart supposed to be entirely in your keeping. Leonie of the Jungle
Tawny eagles are abundant in East Africa and they feed on small mammals and gamebirds, such as francolins and guineafowl.
Tawny port or Cognac (yes, brandy from grapes is a wine, no?) Christmas fruitcake: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog
Broke and wept against the warm, tawny side, sheltered under the soft, golden wing while the gryphon churred ever so softly, stroking his hair with a gentle beak as though he were her child. And Other Tales Of Valdemar
So now I'm the proud owner of a tawny owl. Times, Sunday Times
She kept tropical fish but also liked a little tawny owl that lived in her garden and would take her grandchildren for forest walks and shell collecting. Times, Sunday Times
His tawny hair was touched with wisps of silver grey.
They are like slightly smaller tawny owls with ear tufts and bright orange eyes. Times, Sunday Times
In the underbrush, where the deerberry showed hectic blotches, a squirrel worked busily, completing its winter store, while in the slanting sun rays a tawny butterfly, like a wind-blown, loosened tiger lily, danced its last mad dance with death. The Voice of the People
It is not a commonly used word and the only definition I can find for brinded is, "gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots. All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
In summer, the wapiti's coat is sleek and tawny brown, with a large buff-coloured rump patch.
She highlighted Juliana's cheekbones with a pinky brown blusher and added a hint of warm tawny colour to her lips.
His jerkin and hose were of motley, the left arm and right leg being blue, their opposites, orange tawny, while the nether socks and shoes were in like manner black and scarlet counterchanged. The Armourer's Prentices
_ Thorax deep black, pilose; abdomen tawny along each side. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The tawny port is great. Times, Sunday Times
Iain had mulligatawny soup followed by chicken jalfrezi, which is actually a Pakistani dish, but we're all friends here. News from Shakes Manor
My cousin is called Ariy which means lion and he's not a bit tawny or fierce.
No Titian's feast of gentian, tawny brown, and alpen-rose could intoxicate the lover of those books, those papers, that great map. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
Amanita fulva is tawny and has a volva that is not constricted and often stains rusty brown.
An hour had passed, when another Englishman was standing by the wailing girl, and round him a dozen shockheaded kernes, skene on thigh and javelin in hand, were tossing about their tawny rags, and adding their lamentations to those of the lonely watcher. Westward Ho!
Wet tawny curls framed her face and grazed her shoulders lightly, bangs falling over her forehead.
I go to sleep to the sound of tawny owls and awaken to green pastures. Times, Sunday Times
`With admirable virtue for cleansing the skin from all discolour, such as sunburn, freckles, swarthy, yellow, or tawny colour. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
In the interval between the mulligatawny soup and the roast beef I retired to the telephone again and this time I found Malcolm at home. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
He read about the construction and habits of the owl: "In the tawny, or brown, owl there is a manubrial process; the furcula, far from being joined to the keel of the sternum, consists of two stylets, which do not even meet; while the posterior margin of the sternum presents two pairs of projections, with corresponding fissures between. The Country House
A 20-year-old tawny owl has astonished conservationists by becoming the oldest breeding female found in the wild. Times, Sunday Times
On sunny days, Ke'e is a lovely crescent of tawny sand crouched below an upsweeping ridge line.
Linneus enumerates but four diseases of plants; Erysyche, the white mucor or mould, with sessile tawny heads, with which the leaves are sprinkled, as is frequent on the hop, humulus, maple, acer, &c. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
'They were dressed in striped hose of black and tawny, velvet caps graced at the sides with silver roses, and doublets of murrey and blue cloth, embroidered on the front and back with the three feathers, the prince's blazon, woven in gold. Vietnam: Solutions
Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
But according to Cooper (1980) ‘in anatomical structure there is no significant difference between [the intertarsal joints of Polyboroides] and the corresponding joints of Kestrel, Tawny eagle or Black kite’ (p. 98). Archive 2006-05-01
Joints 1½ in. to 3 in. long, and a little less in width, terete, with very prominent tubercles and numerous tawny bristles; upper spines 1 in. to 1½ in. long, white, with a yellow point, shorter ones hair-like and curled. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
Jaime Lannister trotted onto the field on a chestnut courser with a tawny mane, clad in golden armor that flashed and glittered in the sun. Trial of Seven
Following the Guardian story, readers have told us of their alleged sightings of a tawny brown, outsized cat around Leatherhead.
Viewed from the harbour, it is a long line of buildings, whose painful whiteness is set off by a sky-like cobalt and a sea-like indigo; behind it lies the flat, here of a bistre-brown, there of a lively tawny; whilst the background is formed by dismal Radhwah, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
It was a little friend, a fragrant friend, a tawny and somewhat grimy friend; it was in the pocket of his coat; it was of clay; in fact, it was nothing else than a dudeen. The American Baron
Yesterday I found a tawny owl, face down in the paddling pool. Times, Sunday Times
Keep eyelids earthy and warm with a tawny eyeliner and liven lips with a touch of gloss. Times, Sunday Times
-- "Of a mouse gray colour, more or less deep and sometimes tinged with tawny, with large dark spots, more or less numerous, oblong on the back and neck and in lines, more or less rounded elsewhere, and broken or coalescing" (but never ocellate: Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
ELG talked of Rabelais and ate like Gargantua: mulligatawny soup, fried whiting, brill with shrimps, pork cutlets, to mates farcies, boiled turkey in celery sauce, curried hare, roast pheasant with all the trimmings. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
Alban was sturdy and tall for his age with tawny locks reaching down to his shoulders.
At the evening banquet, Siya wore a tawny-coloured silk dress, overlaid in gold muslin, the scooped neckline and bell sleeves' seams inlaid with pearls.
Barn owls, little owls and tawny owls hunt there, for permanent grassland has by far the highest number of voles. Times, Sunday Times
From the shoulder swung a short green furred cloak, somewhat like that of a Hussar, the lining of which gleamed every now and then with a kind of tawny crimson. The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The students were guided by teacher Tawnya Mann, by representatives of the Biosphere and General Electric, and by Earth Savers, an energy services company that managed the lighting retrofit.
Next to their smock they put on a fair corset of pure silk camblet; above that went the petticoat of white, red tawny, or gray taffeta. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
The usual mustering scene shows tawny grass and anthills and a mob of red Brahmans moving slowly along, but over the page are stockmen with baseball caps and heavy shades.
There was a female redstart, a couple of Rüppell's warblers, northern, Cyprus and black-eared wheatears, three woodchat shrikes, chiffchaff, and a tawny pipit.
Otherwise, they are tawny brown, with streaks on the wings. Times, Sunday Times
When threatened, the aoudad stands motionless and is concealed by its tawny brown coat, which blends with the surrounding rocks.
Head shining, with white tomentum beneath and on each side of the face; third joint of the antennæ piceous, arista simple; thorax with two cinereous stripes and with one cinereous band, somewhat chalybeous towards the scutellum, which is tawny; the band continued on each side of the pectus, whose disk is cinereous; abdomen with an interrupted æneous-green band on the second segment, third and fourth segments æneous-green, each with three large black spots; tibia somewhat tawny towards the base; wings brown (male) or dark brown Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The appetizers were well-prepared: the West Coast salad, consisting of mussels with a cold seafood salad centre, was tasty and interesting, and the mulligatawny soup was clearly homemade, although it was a bit tame.
Women removed tawny coats with their sharp furry frillings and set them in neat but un-fussy piles by the carved umbrella stand.
A medium sweet fortified red wine rather like a tawny Port. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
They are smaller than tawny owls and come out in the daytime but are said to feed mostly at night. Times, Sunday Times
Urban areas and areas where growth will occur are shown in mauve, pink or tawny brown, depending on the map.
Alongside a bony-headed, loose-lipped camel, a goat stands to attention, the shine of its wiry bushiness painted with patient genius, lock by tawny lock.
Meanwhile, cool and tawny neutrals ground many collections with a natural and earthy element.
The hills were darkening on their eastern slopes; the shadows of the few poplars that sparsedly dotted the dusty highway were falling in long black lines that looked like ditches on the dead level of the tawny fields; the shadows of slowly moving cattle were mingling with their own silhouettes, and becoming more and more grotesque. On the Frontier
It suited him; the rich colour against his tawny hair.
The best-known of the British owls is the tawny owl. Times, Sunday Times
The tawny port is browner, nuttier, more figgy and complex.
In 1744, Dr. John Mitchell - writing in the influential Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society -- not only argued that the black skin of Negroes was the result of its thickness and density, which better suited them for hard labor, "the perspirable Matter of black or tawny People is more subtil and volatile in its Nature; and more acrid, penetrating, and offensive, in its Effects." [p. 17] The South Continues to "Make" Race: Will the Supreme Court Follow?
After weeks of sunshine, a cyclonic storm had hit the previous night, laying great trees to waste and stirring the seas to the consistency of mulligatawny.
Heavily fleeced sheep hunkered down behind tussocks of tawny grass for shelter.
Cones from 8 to 16 cm. long, in verticillate clusters, sessile, reflexed, long-ovate, oblique, persistent and remarkably serotinous; apophyses lustrous tawny yellow, abruptly larger and more prominent on the posterior face of the cone, where they are usually prolonged into acute pyramids with a small incurved spine. The Genus Pinus
Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze. The Sun
Chained underneath were two tawny pit bulls.
In the more stabilized dune sections, the tawny sands flare with color, thanks to the blossoms of desert gold, pink desert sand verbena, and purple phacelia.
Where the road had been cut through a rise, great chunks of sandstone were exposed, thick pieces, tawny as the landscape.
Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’.
One-eighth and one-sixteenth Hawaiian were they, which meant that seven-eighths or fifteen-sixteenths white blood informed that skin yet failed to obliterate the modicum of golden tawny brown of Polynesia. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
Small lance-shaped leaves, bright green, and kind of cobwebby, clasp together at the top of the stalk, then unwrap to reveal a globe of overlapping, minutely fringed bracts, satiny and tawny like Enstrom's toffee. Aspen Times - Top Stories
If we look back on the Raj experience we find that we have inherited so many things like the English language and beer, Parliament and tiffin, education system and mulligatawny soup, judiciary and red tape.
Strachey; "howbeit, it is supposed neither of them naturally borne so discolored; for Captain Smith (lyving sometymes amongst them) affirmeth how they are from the womb indifferent white, but as the men, so doe the women," "dye and disguise themselves into this tawny cowler, esteeming it the best beauty to be nearest such a kind of murrey as a sodden quince is of," as the Greek women colored their faces and the ancient The Story of Pocahontas
Branwell was rather a handsome boy, with "tawny" hair, to use Miss Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
Then slowly the hills are brinded until the rains come again, when verdure and bloom again peer through the tawny wreck of the last year's greenery. Canyons of the Colorado
Lions are large cats with short, tawny coats, white underparts, and long tails with a black tuft at the end.
Pale rose . Light tawny colour which some red wines acquire on oxidation.
Sitting on the balustrade as well, but at the corner where he could lean against the wall, Impi's eyes were closed, his thick tawny mane catching the evening sunlight.
This was no very cruel task, for "the rich tawny soil seemed specially adapted to the crop; the great yellow murphies rolling out of the hills like eggs from a nest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Head black above, testaceous beneath; antennæ testaceous; abdomen with four broad abbreviated piceous bands; legs tawny, hind tibiæ black with a tawny apical mark, hind tarsi black towards the base; wings greyish, slightly lurid towards the base, blackish-brown about the exterior part of the costa, veins black, tawny towards the base; halteres testaceous, tawny towards the tips. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The women are of the same hue as the men, says Strachey; "howbeit, it is supposed neither of them naturally borne so discolored; for Captain Smith (lyving sometymes amongst them) affirmeth how they are from the womb indifferent white, but as the men, so doe the women," "dye and disguise themselves into this tawny cowler, esteeming it the best beauty to be nearest such a kind of murrey as a sodden quince is of," as the Greek women colored their faces and the ancient Britain women dyed themselves with red; The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
In fact, I consider myself very lucky to live in a neighbourhood where all the houses are easy shot-put distances from large, mature trees: trees which countrify the landscape, moderate the weather, produce a tawny owl or a spotted woodpecker right next to my bedroom window, and let me wander around all morning in my dressing gown if I want. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Cones symmetrical, from 3 to 5 cm. long, ovate-conic, often persistent for a few years but with a weak hold on the branch; apophyses dull pale tawny yellow, flat or slightly elevated, the mucro more or less persistent. The Genus Pinus
A lofty hall divides this one, terminating on a rear veranda, with a wide view of the precipitous white city, buried in verdure, sloping down to the flashing emerald of the bay, that is ringed with tawny hills. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World

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