"Orange-colored" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Brazilian species, highly ornamental in its long, arching leaves, and producing quantities of orange-colored nuts, in size about as large as a chestnut, inclosed ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... all the needs we can conceive. White and gray clouds on a blue sky—what more could she use in such a composition? A bit of gray green moss upon a black rock, a field of yellow dandelions, a pink and white spike of hollyhocks, an orange-colored butterfly poised on a stalk of larkspur—what ...
— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe
... come in with EVERSMANN. The latter carries a wide orange-colored ribbon with many stars and Orders on it, and ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... women wear their hair, which is of a yellowish color, loose and long, gathering it up behind the head." Their canoes are "very neatly and well made, sewed together with cord, and finished with a white or orange-colored bitumen, in place of pitch. They are very light, and the natives sail in them with their lateen sails made of palm-mats, with so much swiftness against the wind or with a side wind that it is a thing to marvel at." The trading ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair
... 31, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, serrate (rarely laciniate), pale beneath. Branches and footstalks densely hairy. Fruit globular, in large, dense, erect panicles, covered with crimson hairs. Shrub or tree, 10 to 30 ft. high. It is very common along fences and on hillsides. The wood is orange-colored and brittle. ...
— Trees of the Northern United States - Their Study, Description and Determination • Austin C. Apgar
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