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Sentences starting with brown

Brown turned the thing over in his mind a moment, and then--asked him to supper. [5]
Brown was at the wheel. [5]
Brown was at one side of the wheel, steering; I was at the other, standing by to 'pull down' or 'shove up. [5]
Brown and violet marble is also freely employed in wreaths, scrolls, and lintels to relieve the monotony of white wall. [5]
Brown trotted after it, saying, "Whoa, whoa, there's a good fellow;" but whenever he got near enough to chance a jump for the buggy, the horse quickened its pace a little and defeated him. [5]
Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything. [5]
Brown was steering; I was 'pulling down. [5]
Brown remained in his place; but he would not travel with me. [5]
Brown threw off his coat and challenged the man to fight --abused him, threatened him, impeached his courage, and urged and even implored him to fight; and in the meantime the smiling stranger placed himself under our protection in mock distress. [5]
Brown received a good pummeling at the hands of the future humorist, who, though upheld by the captain, decided to quit the Pennsylvania at New Orleans and to come up the river by another boat. [5]

Sentences ending with brown

At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
She used to wear a red dress, I remember, and her hair was brown. [11]
The Clemens family was still at Quarry Farm at the end of August, and one afternoon there occurred a startling incident which Mark Twain thought worth setting down in practically duplicate letters to Howells and to Dr. John Brown. [5]
Even his hair was brown. [11]
They went early, therefore, remaining at the Langdon home in the city until Quarry Farm should feel a touch of warmer sun, Clemens wrote the news to Doctor Brown. [5]
Seven generations of stern life and thought had their focus here in him,--from Oliver Cromwell to John Brown. [9]
The frost will soon come; the grass will be brown. [4]
Instead of going over my river in my mind as was my duty, I threw business aside for pleasure, and killed Brown. [5]
She had noticed nothing as she mounted the cart--neither the driver nor the horses; but, as they hurried on, she was roused by a familiar voice saying, "'E done it all right at Hetmeyer's Kopje--done it brown. [11]
Lady Dargan could make no effort of memory, but she replied without hesitation--or conscience: "Yellow and brown. [11]

Short sentences using brown

Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. [6]
Jacques's brown eyes twinkled. [11]
Mr. Brown is not well. [5]
That did for John Brown. [11]
Mr. R. Brown, in 'Proc. [1]
Mr. R. Brown in 'Proc. [1]
Myrtle won't have brown bread. [6]
Brown, John, 302, 305, 306. [6]
Gentlemen, Colonel Brown. [5]
Brown began, straightway-- 'Here! [5]

Sentences containing brown two or more times

Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
But Tom he was huffy, and said me and Jim was a couple of ignorant blatherskites, and then he says: "Suppose there's a brown calf and a big brown dog, and an artist is making a picture of them. [5]
He hastened forward, then stood still, a few feet away, his eyes on hers, his helmet off, his brown hair, brown as when she first saw it--peril and hardship had not thinned or greyed it. [11]
In contrast to the light brown of the hair was the very dark brown of the eyes and the still darker brown of the eyelashes. [11]
The brown face, the clear, strong brown eyes and the brown hatless head rose up eighteen inches above his own, making a gallant summit to a robust stalk. [11]
The stranger smiled, smoothed out the hat, and offered it to Brown with profuse apologies couched in caustic sarcasm, and begged Brown not to destroy him. [5]
Her brown hand--yet not so brown after all--held her hat lightly, and was, somehow, like a signal out of a world in which his hopes were lost for the present. [11]
Sooch hair--mooch long an' brown, and a leetla beard not so brown, an' a leather sole onto his feet, and a grey coat to his anklesyes, so like dat. [11]

More example sentences with the word brown in them

He was a young man with a smooth face, and a frank brown eye which paid its tribute to Virginia. [9]
Take care, or you will have to drink that bitter brown stuff you sent yesterday; then you will know for once how nasty it can be. [10]
That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
And how much would it avail you, if you could, by the use of John Brown, Helper's Book, and the like, break up the Republican organization? [7]
But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
These heavy-eyed men with the alcoholized brains, these pallid youths with the nicotized optic ganglia and thinking-marrows brown as their own meerschaums, of whom you meet too many,--will ask all your wisdom to deal with their poisoned nerves and their enfeebled wills. [3]
Had been tampering with something brown and sticky. [6]
In the gaunt, wiry figure and the lean, brown face Jane recognized one of her Mormon riders, Blake. [13]
Alert, gentle, smiling, winning young brown creature as ever was. [5]
The building is wholly of wood, reddish brown in tint, a very pleasing color. [5]
Her gray, nearly white hair, though ill-suited to her almost youthful features, lent them a peculiar charm, and how brightly her round, brown eyes still sparkled! [10]
Shorter's brown eyes, which became very wide and serious, too. [9]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
I knew that when I saw you again the brown eyes would be browner, the words at the lips would be sweeter--and so it is. [11]
A month later when he was more recovered physically he would be able to perform the operation, but the old man was dying now, while he stood helplessly stroking his big brown beard. [11]
In the days when he first brought Carmen home, his eye was like a bead of brown light on a swivel. [11]
Yet the features were there, too, regular and fine; and her brown hair waving away from her broad, white forehead over eyes a greyish violet in colour gave her a classic distinction. [11]
The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist. [11]
And once, as we drifted into an inlet at sunset, we caught sight of the shaggy head of a bear above the brown water, and leaping down into the cabin I primed the rifle that stood there and shot him. [9]
However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
John Brown shivered--there was something so cold-blooded in the suggestion that he might have found arsenic a good thing. [11]
His brown hair was now streaked with grey, but the light in the face was the same; there was the same alertness and buoyant health in the figure and the same row of laughing white teeth. [11]
A small fish was in the frying-pan, crisp and brown and tempting, and one could see that Marget was not expecting such respectable food as this. [5]
When the cider was heated in the brown stone pitcher, there was difference of opinion whether there should be toast in it; some were for toast, because that was the old-fashioned way, and others were against it, "because it does not taste good" in cider. [4]
However, the man was handsome and unusual in his leopard way, with his brown curling hair and well-cared-for moustache. [11]
His brown beard was grown like a bramble patch, his eye had a violet light, and his hunting shirt was in tatters. [9]
The garden itself was full of wild green things coming up through the brown of last season's growth. [9]
Or ever he was four and twenty I found the first white hair in his brown locks. [10]
His fresh cheek was bent to the brown, delicate wood, and he was playing to his sister the air of the undying chanson, "Je vais mourir pour ma belle reine. [11]
However, Mr. Brown was ambitious, and he kept on trying. [5]
And it so warmed me toward Mr. Brown of St. Louis that I said that if ever I visited that city again, I would seek out that excellent man and kiss the hem of his garment if it was a new one. [5]
A glint of warm gold gleamed from her hair, and a tint of red shone in the clear dark brown of cheeks. [13]
Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
In the marble vestibule of the Corn National Bank I ran into Tallant, holding his brown straw hat in his hand and looking a little more moth-eaten than usual. [9]
Day by day Venters watched the white of her face slowly change to brown, and the wasted cheeks fill out by imperceptible degrees. [13]
He felt his veins beating with desire, with anger, disgust, and shame; for there was John Brown, to the applause of the crowd, imitating his old manner, his voice, his very look. [11]
Then, passing through veil after veil of mystery, it told of a grand Seigneur whose boat was overturned in a whirlpool, and was saved by a little brown diver. [11]
He seemed, as usual, distrait, betraying no curiosity as to the object of my call, his lean, brown fingers playing with the newspapers on his lap. [9]
His smoothly shaven upper lip and brown whiskers, his erect bearing and energetic manner, reminded one of an English parliamentary leader, but his words sounded almost menacing. [10]
His eyes fell upon her rich, firm, stately body; it lingered for a moment on the brown fulness of her hair; then her look was gathered to his, and they fell into each other's arms. [11]
For we were upon a pleasure trip--lest any man forget,--a pleasure trip amidst stark woods and brown plains flecked with ponds. [9]
Clay's dog put up his brown nose for a little attention, and got it. [5]
Little Brown sprang up and became abusive in a moment. [5]
His brown eyes under the rough thatch of his eyebrow took in the room with lightning glance, and he nodded respectfully, yet with great friendliness, at John Grier. [11]
One hand lay under her head, hidden among the thick dark brown hair, the other clasped unconsciously a little amulet of green stone, which hung round her neck. [10]
By confusion the two Helms may be the same man, and Bunn and Brown may be the same man. [7]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
Eyes turned unconcernedly towards the brown clattering ankles of the two as they entered the cafe and seated themselves immediately behind where the Sheikh-el-beled squatted. [11]
It was half-way towards noon when the hoof-beats drummed over the Brown Hermit's cave, and they rested not there; but it was noon and no more when they rode through Pango Dooni's gates and into the square where he stood. [11]
She could almost touch the brown hair waving back carelessly from the forehead, untouched by powder, in the fashion of the time; and she could hear his cheery laugh quite plainly, so complete was the illusion. [11]
He wore round, tortoise-shell spectacles, he had a high, dome-like forehead, and an ample light brown beard which he stroked from time to time. [9]
Instantly the waves took hues of lighter brown, deeper yellow, and cloudy gray, and the sea wore the aspect of a shallow pond with muddy bottom, into which workmen hurl blocks of stone. [10]
The brown eyes, too, were far more restless than they had ever been since the Antoine was wrecked, and their owner returned with Carmen to the Manor Cartier. [11]
In the autumn, too, many a dry brown leaf found its way among the more expensive tobacco ones. [10]
Yet she wondered, too, if she was right, when she saw his fox-terrier watching him, ever watching him with his big brown eyes as he buoyantly worked, and saw him stoop to pat its head. [11]
The party went to the Southern Hotel, where the great Duff Brown was very well known, and indeed was a man of so much importance that even the office clerk was respectful to him. [5]
It was hard to tell what were the principles controlling Tarboe--there was always an element of suspicion in his brown and brilliant eyes. [11]
Take Mr. Brown to our house, and give him help--you see how plainly he needs it. [5]
She came striding to meet her new friends, attired in a rustling canary-green silk robe whose train swept the ground, but it was raised so high in front that the brown hunting-boots encasing her well-formed feet were distinctly visible. [10]
I often wanted to kill Brown, but this would not answer. [5]
Annette now came to her feet suddenly, her pale face showing defiance, and her big brown eyes flicking anger. [11]
I ordered Hilton to have the horses cared for, and, not giving the men time to speak, I fetched out the old brown brandy, wondering all the time what could be done. [11]
The foliage seemed to consist of big bunches of pine-spines, the lower half of each bunch a rich brown or old-gold color, the upper half a most vivid and strenuous and shouting green. [5]
When I went to bed that night, I killed Brown in seventeen different ways--all of them new. [5]
Mrs. Brown wanted to be reasonable, but Mrs. Jones wouldn't let her. [5]
Mr. Siddons proved to be a small and sallow young man with a pointed nose and bright, bulbous brown eyes like a chipmunk's. [9]
At last the time seemed ripe for a final advance, and Brown gathered his courage together and resolved to make it. [5]
How such a thought would have insulted him the night we lay in our cabin planning European trips and brown stone houses on Russian Hill! [5]
Her hair was thick, brown and very full, like that of her father, and in all respects, save one, she had an advantage over both her parents. [11]
While reflecting over these matters, the image of the lean Egyptian goldsmith, with his narrow, brown, smooth-shaven face and skull, prominent cheek bones, receding brow, projecting ears and, with all its keenness, lustreless glance, rose before him as if he could see his bodily presence. [10]
Now our friend, there, knows verses that are salable and unsalable as well as you do brown sugar.--Keep quiet now, and I will go and get your manuscript for you. [6]
Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy. [10]
She was setting there in a brown study, with it laying in her lap. [5]
His face like the yellow brown of a peach, hair that curls close to his head, blue eyes that see everything, and a big hand that knows what it is doing. [11]
Whenever I took the wheel for a moment on Ealer's watch, Ritchie would sit back on the bench and play Brown, with continual ejaculations of 'Snatch her! [5]
So this was the way his John Brown had come home to roost. [11]
The something was the vision of a young woman in a brown linen suit seated in a runabout and driving a horse almost as handsome as Pepper. [9]
Well, sing us the song of the little brown diver. [11]
The tint of the shingled front is brown, and all the colors are low and blended. [4]
In the pause, the Seigneur added "I forgot to add that the man had a brown beard. [11]
The moss on the rocks had changed from brown to green, and the vagrant birds had fluttered back from the south. [11]
I was in the prairie, and it was scorched and brown to the horizon. [9]
She was stirring the pot diligently, now and then sprinkling in what looked like a brown dust, and watching the brew intently. [11]
His fingers smoothed the oval brown breast of the instrument with affection. [11]
From the sea the old brown farmhouse seemed a snug haven of refuge; from the inland road it appeared, with its spreading, sloping roofs, like an ancient sea-craft come ashore, which had been covered in and then embowered by kindly Nature with foliage. [4]
I paused in the middle of the room, all fixed to make my bow, but Brown did not look around. [5]
We would start the men, and all would go well till the yawl would bring up on a heavy cake of ice, and then the men would drop like so many ten-pins, while Brown assumed the horizontal in the bottom of the boat. [5]
The builder of the meetinghouse rubbed a great, brown arm, scratched his head, and turned and came face to face with Cynthia Ware, in a poke bonnet. [9]
The gentleman with the little brown bag stood and looked sharply at me, but with friendly if penetrating eyes. [11]
Yonder, where for the length of a man the snow had vanished and grass and brown earth appeared, people had fought together, and there--Holy Virgin! [10]
The lock on the left temple of the second son remained brown, and not a sign of grey could be discovered even with a magnifying glass. [10]
The speeches at the John Brown, the Walter Scott, and the Free Religious Association meetings were published at the time, no doubt with his consent, but without any active co-operation on his part. [6]
Also, there were the helpless Old People yonder in the woods waiting-their fate and Brown's happiness to be determined by what Brown should do within the next two seconds. [5]
The face under the heavy coils of brown hair was sweet and gentle, delicately feminine. [9]
Flaming soldiers of the Governor's guard, two by two; sober, sandalled friars in brown, priests in their robes,--another batch of color; crosses shimmering, tapers emerging from the cool darkness within to pale by the light of day. [9]
As I reached the gallery Madame la Vicomtesse, gowned in brown linen for riding, rose quickly from her chair and came forward to meet me. [9]
From Liverpool, on the eve of sailing, he sent Doctor Brown a good-by word. [5]
Upon John Brown the effect was startling. [11]

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