Blue as deep as…
It seems some newborns have blue eyes even if later they take on other hues. Colour is one of the...
Pink of old roses
Musty pink makes me think of an old breed of faded rose, or a soft-worn damask, or one of the...
An opiate vista
A curious vista of 'tallow-coloured' images floating before an opium-steeped lord.
'Laudanum' was the name for various opium-based preparations and...
Gamboge yellow
A gum resin produced by various East Asian trees, used as a yellow pigment and as a purgative in medicine....
Ribbon when the colour’s gone
Mrs Poyner offering up her pithy view of many wives in the neighbourhood, during a good-natured discussion with her husband. ...
The taste of colour
This is one of two metaphors I found in Hoban's book which mix two senses. Here visual overload leaves a...
Slate-colored snowbirds
Firstly, I like the idea of a 'snow' bird being the colour of slate. And being obsessed with colours and...
Of kingfisher colours
This description of a Halcyon Kingfisher packs a rainbow of colour metaphors, from pink to green to blue and brown. ...
As blue and as vague as …
A beautiful image, blueness and vagueness likened to 'unmapped lakes', and these, referring to eyes, being misted over with the...
Bruise-coloured clouds
A striking colour name, and particularly as I am now looking out onto ...
'... bruise-coloured and quicksilver clouds...'
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Ocean-grey eyes
A lovely description of a woman's eyes but a woman who has a certain transparence to her, not a particularly...
Crab-green water
I think I can imagine the shade of 'crab-green', a deep dark place where this wily old conger eel escapes...
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