The shoreline barrier was a dense-woven knot of green, red, and yellow strands, twisted in roiling confusion.

Every time I brushed it, long yellow strands would clog the bristles.

Some yellow strands lay curled across her forehead and framed a face on which the first ravages of time emphasised rather than diminished her assured femininity.

To the east, we could see the distant yellow strands of Corsica's finest beaches.

Roberts pulled a long yellow gelatinous strand from the Golden One's belly.

Recipients may wear the corresponding square knot, with a white strand over a yellow strand, on the BSA uniform.

Now guess the identity of the shimmering yellow strands beside it.

"I gave blood a couple of hours ago," she explained, and wiped a yellow strand off her mouth with the back of her hand.

The wind blew her untied hair back; it lifted in a mass of cloudlike yellow, clear and bright and utterly clean, each strand separate.

Between them, in the shallower water is Oitir Buidhe, meaning the "yellow strand", which probably lends the island its name.