"Chestnut-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bestrode was a large chestnut-coloured mustang; and as the fiery creature reared and bounded over the turf, the magnificent form of its rider was displayed to advantage. She still carried her rifle; and was equipped just as I had seen her in the morning; but now, sharing ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... plumage, and to my great delight down it fell. It was nearly three feet in height, with a long tuft of silken and silvery feathers down the back of its neck. Carlos knocked over a beautiful little bird with a chestnut-coloured head, a perfect heron in miniature, but only the size of a thrush. Lejoillie was delighted, and would have hugged us both as ...
— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston
... these two were in striking contrast. The labour leader was stocky, chestnut-coloured, vital, possessing the bulldog quality of the British self-made man combined with a natural wit, sharpened in the arena, that often startled the company into an appreciative laughter. The ship-builder, on the other hand, was one of those spare ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... rounded, and very sparsely covered with black hairs externally, with chestnut-coloured hairs on the anterior, and black on the posterior half ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale |
