Then he wondered, could they be some kind of mountain horses or unusual, tawny-colored goats?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kinslayer Wars]

He wasn't wearing sunglasses and the lazy, tawny-colored eyes seemed to find her discomfort amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Fiddler]

Lucy hopped out of the car, removing the wire cage; a tawny-colored guinea pig huddled in one corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference

The first state after that, in the road to refined life, is the pastoral, and without music the tawny-colored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference

Because it was still early in the year, she'd mostly found heavy clusters of the tawny-colored oyster mushrooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul of the Fire]

In his borrowed, 1985 tawny-colored Rolls-Royce, we pulled up along the curb next to the Hammons work, called “House of the Future.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: A Clash of Sensibilities, Now Resolved - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Why, a great anxious mother-hen, all tawny-colored and white, with thirteen downy little chickens, who were frightened enough, and wondering where in the wide world they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gems Gathered in Haste A New Year's Gift for Sunday Schools] Reference

And as if to punctuate Winfrey's insistence that she is firmly grounded, Sadie, her tawny-colored cocker spaniel, who has been reclining on a nearby chair, quietly passes gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now it's Oprah's moment] Reference

Frank had blue eyes, and tawny-colored hair; and, since much of his life had been spent on the plains among the cattle men, he knew considerable about the ways of cowboys and hunters, though always ready to pick up information from veterans of the trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference

These students wear gowns of tawny-colored frieze with red facings.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Philippine Islands] Reference

They were clad in robes of tawny-colored satin embroidered with gold and silver edging.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

His companion had a band of tawny-colored taffeta on his shield, with an "M" as cipher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

Their livery was green, embroidered with gold and silver, and on the shields were tawny-colored bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

I gave one look at his tawny-colored forelock, which stood pompadour-style about his ears, and shouted out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Wife] Reference

The red-maple is deep crimson, that tawny-colored grove is beeches, there is the purple woodbine trailing over the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret] Reference

But for that classic-browed genius, with his chrysanthemum of tawny-colored hair, isn't this a pleasant token of regard and esteem?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Friends] Reference

The river, dull and tawny-colored, (la belle riviere!) drags itself sluggishly along, tired of the heavyweight of boats and coal-barges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Iron Mills] Reference

The river, dull and tawny-colored, (la belle riviere!) drags itself sluggishly along, tired of the heavy weight of boats and coal-barges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman] Reference

It was early August when a large, tawny-colored cat with a long tail crept into the pasture where she keeps a half-dozen horses off Newcomb Road in Goshen.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference

It fell on the bed of a torrent, which it displaced, and presently we saw its tawny-colored waters also spread themselves over the ravine, which was their couch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2] Reference

Mr. Farquhar then came in, and the question was referred to him; he laughed and told them that painters were a species of panther, not spotted but tawny-colored, and at times very dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlers in Canada] Reference

Meanwhile, sun glasses won't do this celebrity from the animal kingdom any good if he wants to be incognito because his white fur makes him easily distinguishable from his tawny-colored den mates.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from www.thesunchronicle.com] Reference

Soon afterwards, Ambrogio was talking at the door of a house with some Italian comedians, when a young man, covered with a tawny-colored mantle, passed by upon a brown horse, bearing a servant behind him on the crupper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

Clouded leopards from the mainland have large clouds on their skin with fewer, often faint, spots within the cloud markings, and they are lighter in color, with a tendency toward tawny-colored fur and a partial double dorsal stripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

The "gyarden spot" at the side of the house was full of brown and withered skeletons of the summer growths; among the crisp blades of the Indian-corn a sibilant voice was forever whispering; down the tawny-colored vistas the pumpkins glowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [His "Day In Court" 1895] Reference

Van Tal, and the great tawny-colored, massive dog, with his belled harness that chimed cheerily as he went, and the small figure that ran beside him which had little white feet in great wooden shoes, and a soft, grave, innocent, happy face like the little fair children of Rubens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Childhood] Reference

He shook his tawny-colored head wearily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call Of The Heart]

Her eyes were huge, tawny-colored, guileless -- sweet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoodwink]

The little Ardennois was a beautiful child, with dark, grave, tender eyes, and a lovely bloom upon his face, and fair locks that clustered to his throat; and many an artist sketched the group as it went by him -- the green cart with the brass flagons of Teniers and Mieris and Van Tal, and the great tawny-colored, massive dog, with his belled harness that chimed cheerily as he went, and the small figure that ran beside him which had little white feet in great wooden shoes, and a soft, grave, innocent, happy face like the little fair children of Rubens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dog of Flanders] Reference

The little Ardennois was a beautiful child, with dark, grave, tender eyes, and a lovely bloom upon his face, and fair locks that clustered to his throat; and many an artist sketched the group as it went by him -- the green cart with the brass flagons of Teniers and Mieris and Van Tal, and the great, tawny-colored, massive dog, with his belled harness that chimed cheerily as he went, and the small figure that ran beside him which had little white feet in great wooden shoes, and a soft, grave, innocent, happy face like the little fair children of Rubens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)] Reference