Here are the ones that the Nautilus's nets most frequently hauled on board: rays, including spotted rays that were oval in shape and brick red in color, their bodies strewn with erratic blue speckles and identifiable by their jagged double stings, silver–backed skates, common stingrays with stippled tails, butterfly rays that looked like huge two–meter cloaks flapping at middepth, toothless guitarfish that were a type of cartilaginous fish closer to the shark, trunkfish known as dromedaries that were one and a half feet long and had humps ending in backward–curving stings, serpentine moray eels with silver tails and bluish backs plus brown pectorals trimmed in gray piping, a species of butterfish called the fiatola decked out in thin gold stripes and the three colors of the French flag, Montague blennies four decimeters long, superb jacks handsomely embellished by seven black crosswise streaks with blue and yellow fins plus gold and silver scales, snooks, standard mullet with yellow heads, parrotfish, wrasse, triggerfish, gobies, etc., plus a thousand other fish common to the oceans we had already crossed.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

And may we not, Meno, truly call those men 'divine' who, having no understanding, yet succeed in many a grand deed and word? MENO: Certainly. SOCRATES: Then we shall also be right in calling divine those whom we were just now speaking of as diviners and prophets, including the whole tribe of poets.
— from Meno by Plato

The underlying spots and blotches range in color from "pallid brownish drab" to "deep brownish drab."
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

So Lépine, after sending a brief report in cipher to M. Delcassé, turned to the work which had accumulated during his absence in a happier and more contented frame of mind than he had enjoyed for some days.
— from The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The only remarkable feature in his face was the nose, which was large, slightly aquiline, brownish red in colour, and protruded from his face at a peculiar angle.
— from That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

On the other hand, a check in nutrition and growth will cause a diminution of the perianth in size, accompanied by retrogression in color.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 by Various

Where once were weeds are now golden coins scattered in the sun, and bees revelling in color; and we are happy!
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

It should also be remembered, in considering the necessity of forcing the bridge of Lodi, that the ford over the Adda was crossed with difficulty even by the cavalry, and that when once separated by the river, the communication between the main army and the detachment of infantry, (which his censors say Napoleon should have sent across in the same manner,) being in a great degree interrupted, the latter might have been exposed to losses, from which Buonaparte, situated as he was on the right bank, could have had no means of protecting them.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

Whilst in Rome at this time I tried to turn my visit to some account by restudying its Christian antiquities.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

They should afterwards be rinsed in cold water and dried.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Suddenly Arkansas Bill remarked, "I can't stan' it any longer," and walked rapidly toward the sick man's hut, and knocked lightly on the door, and looked in.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton