Sentence example with the word 'ochreous'

ochreous

Last update: July 20, 2015


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Its bright red beak, the bare bluish skin surrounding its large grey eyes, and the tufts of elongated feathers springing vertically from its lores, give it a pleasing and animated expression; but its plumage generally is of an inconspicuous ochreous grey above and dull white beneath, - the feathers of the upper parts, which on the neck and throat are long and loose, being barred by fine zigzag markings of dark brown, while those of the lower parts are more or less striped.   [Please select]

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The cloth is stiff with the ochreous mud that has dried underneath.   [Please select]

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In its blank front there was a door, swung on enormous hinges, and thickly daubed with ochreous clay.   [Please select]

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] The Buff Ermine has all four wings of a buff or ochreous tint, and spotted with black as here represented.   [Please select]

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Its fore wings are dark yellow or ochreous, with distinct brown markings, the chief of which are two broad transverse bands.   [Please select]

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The hind wings are pale ochreous: they are brownish along the hind margin, and have a light fringe.   [Please select]

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The fore wings are also of a greyish or ochreous brown, and the black margin of the hind wings is proportionately narrower.   [Please select]

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