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Other kinds of sweet wine are forms of fortified wines and ripaso-style wines, such as vin santo or succulent tawny ports.
Instead of blue, her eyes were a deep, tawny brown that complemented her tanned skin.
The colour palette encompasses charcoal greys, tawny autumnal greens, silver and white.
Meanwhile, cool and tawny neutrals ground many collections with a natural and earthy element.
Other possible wildlife you may encounter in the area are boobok owls, tawny frogmouths, and wambengers.
Lions vary in colour from nearly white to deep ochre brown but tawny yellow is the commonest shade.
This is where modern California was born, when 19 th-century gold seekers swarmed across these tawny hillsides seeking treasure.
Urban areas and areas where growth will occur are shown in mauve, pink or tawny brown, depending on the map.
He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers.
Some wines, however, such as oloroso sherry, tawny port, and Madeira, owe their character to deliberate exposure to oxygen.
She grinned suddenly, her face lighting up, her eyes turning to tawny amber-green.
In summer, the wapiti's coat is sleek and tawny brown, with a large buff-coloured rump patch.
When threatened, the aoudad stands motionless and is concealed by its tawny brown coat, which blends with the surrounding rocks.
She was pale, late thirties or so, with dark wiry hair spiked straight up in a tall, scary crew cut, and tawny skin.
Following the Guardian story, readers have told us of their alleged sightings of a tawny brown, outsized cat around Leatherhead.
In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band.
From the Monterey pine belt to bristlecone country, conifers yield cones whose tawny beauty is worth celebrating.
The fierce glisten of the candle caught the kitten's tawny eyes as she looked up.
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.
Mavrodaphne is best known as a dessert wine that is akin to the flavor and aroma of tawny port.
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As the chain swung we saw the crate was really a clumsy cage in which ramped a huge and tawny form.
He glowered at his fate, and tugged his tawny moustache for some time in silence.
The Fox, steel blue in the shade, becomes tawny as its namesake when its fur of rough waves is combed to redness in the sunlight.
His dark, tawny skin, his blanket and features indicated that he was an aborigine.
This tuft of tawny hair, too, is identical in character with that of the beast of Cuvier.
To each floating cup, tawny or damasked, white or deepest cramoisy, the Rector called their attention.
To each floating cup, tawny or damasked white or deepest cramoisy, the Rector called their attention.
The black of wing and tail-feathers is less pure and edged with white or tawny.
A boy brought me a tankard of tawny Munich beer, and, sipping it, I watched.
There could be no doubt of his identity, with the light on his strong face and tawny hair.
Suddenly, from the ruined garden above him on the brow of the slope, came the dread hunting cry of his old enemy, the tawny owl.
In the river, on the opposite side from where the tawny owl lay, a stream drowns itself.
Rob never spoke of the tawny owl without an effort, but he showed that he appreciated Dick's unspoken sympathy.
We have known a tawny owl to kill and devour a Kestrel which had been kept in the same aviary with it.
Crepidotus fulvotomentosus Pk., is a pretty species with a tomentose cap and tawny scales, usually occurring singly.
There was the tawny, but intelligent Mandingo, and by his side the Jolof of ebon hue.
Saxon gobbles us with kisses, and nuzzles his nose, and we put our arms round his tawny neck.
The Cathedral of Palencia is of the same tawny yellow as the plains about it.
It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
He seemed to see the great gray piles of granite set in old Spanish towns amid a landscape tawny, wild, and windswept.
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