"Cream-colored" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... repeated. It is heard from the middle of April to October, and upon the bird's arrival it at once sets about preparing its nest, a loose heap of sticks with a soft lining, in holes, boxes, and the like. From six to ten tiny, cream-colored eggs are laid, so thickly spotted with brown that the whole egg ...
— Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897 • Various
... Marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligee she looked like a delicate painting of some Saxon princess. Fascinated, Bernice watched the braids grow. Heavy and luxurious they were moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to Bernice remained this relic and the ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... not long to look at the outside of it, for her companion, who had been there before, and knew the ways of the place, went up to a little door in a two-story part of the house and knocked. Our friends were admitted by a dark cream-colored slave, who informed them that the Practicing Wizard was engaged with other visitors, but that he would soon ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various
... You must not leave me alone to receive them. How nice you look in that cream-colored dress, Grace! I thought it would suit you." But, though his eyes rested on her as he spoke, he seemed rather absent. And when the door-bell rang a moment afterwards, a sudden flush came to ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... Hetmari of Jitomir already had begun eating when we arrived. The setting sun threw raspberry lights on the cream-colored mat. ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit
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