high-coloured
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The story is brilliantly revealed through many overlapping accounts, tales told from different points of view in the Southern tradition like stories on the porch but all washed in the same, high-coloured prose.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013
On the one side sat the bride, a high-coloured, buxom young girl, serene and erect as Britannia on the halfpennies, and guarded by two stout fellows, masons or slaters apparently, in their working dresses.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
She came back to Norton with high-coloured cheeks and eyes very bright indeed.
From Trading by Warner, Susan
He is no plain-looking boy: that jet-black hair, white brow, high-coloured cheek, those quick, dark eyes, are good points in their way.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
I have forgotten the details; no doubt they were high-coloured.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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