tawniness

Her pubic hair was a swatch of color against her tawniness.

I could see growing in the topaz tawniness of his eyes, his new set-apartness.

But hills and mountains on that side showed bare and heated, though beautiful with the sunburnt tawniness of California.

Amazingly, this gloriously illuminated volume is still in its original leather binding, darkened now from white to tawniness and bearing markings on the back cover of the chains that had been used to secure it to shelves.

All was alien and baffling to him; and especially was he troubled by his rough garments and by the sun-swart tawniness of his skin: for such were hardly proper to the young King Amero, whom he believed himself to be.

With a final effort he lurched through it and saw ahead of him a rising slope of ground that went up and never seemed to stop, ground covered with the beautiful tawniness of sun-dried grass, broken by rocky ledges thrusting from the slope, dotted by clumps of bushes and here and there a tree.

To Ariel, Roukoubé was the creamy colour of a peanut kernel, as if she, in her cinnamon tawniness, had been shucked to reveal him inside her; and inside him, the pulse of his life, beating in the soft place of his head where the plates of his skull had not yet met.