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Mrs. Dubbadoe found in it the piece of corn-colored worsted she had left for a mark the year before, so she was able to go on where she had stopped then.

From How to Do It by Hale, Edward Everett

"I wish Cousin Morris had offered his carriage," she thought, as the corn-colored and white wagon disappeared from view.

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Holmes, Mary Jane

You can wear the corn-colored frock you wore to dinner with the Princess Sophia at Palm Beach.

From The Automobile Girls at Washington Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies by Crane, Laura Dent

"Nothing doin'," said Al, stroking his corn-colored mustache with that languid finality against which there was no appeal.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest

She's got corn-colored ha'r, 66 an' eyes as soft as the sky in Joone.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert