One of the most unusual descriptions of a colour I have come across, and I also liked the gawkiness of the foal.
‘… and beside her the liver-coloured foal with its head towards its mother’s flank, apparently still much embarrassed by its own straddling existence.’
Source: George Eliot, Adam Bede (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 (1859)), p. 234
