What is "ocher"

Usage examples of "ocher".

A patch of ocher plaster on the wall opposite the window was cracked in a spiderweb pattern, and in the center of the web stood an arbalest bolt.

They turn north and then south again, following a fairly even thirty-degree slope, and at last the floor of the chasma appears to the west, a light-tan plain mottled with black and ocher patches, the iceblink of the western wall flashing at the horizon more than twenty kilometers away.

Bunched close together they came after me, the nailless, padded feet of their ponderous mounts making no sound upon the ocher, moss-like vegetation of the dead sea bottom.

Sir Ocher laughed aloud and clanged down the vizard on his gay young face.

On his left, Sir Ocher laughed aloud and clanged down the vizard on his gay young face.

Beautiful expanses of metal and plastic, each enclosed in seductively homogeneous chitin of earth tones and ochers, formed a ring around the room as secret and monolithic as Stonehenge.

Ten Thousand set off into a flat wilderness of silphium and little else, the ocher ground between those drab, greyish little bushes littered with rubble and fist-sized stones.

The ceiling was low and barrel-vaulted, the bloodwood stangs made bright by a wash of yellow ocher.

Naelore had laid out a yellow-and-green featherwork girdle for her waist and a cloak of ocher wool.

Slanting torrents of light played on the jungle canopy only meters below the lowest-riding cities, sparkled on the stone and plaster and marble, the dozen shades of yellows and pinks and ochers of the buildings, the flashing, angled reflections of the antigrav generators and the tasseled gardens of blueleaf, tremmin, fiddleheaded bull-ferns.

It is always a little saddening to me to look down thus upon a dying world, to scan the endless miles of ocher, mosslike vegetation which carpets the vast areas where once rolled the mighty oceans of a young and virile Mars, to ponder that just beneath me once ranged the proud navies and the merchant ships of a dozen rich and powerful nations where today the fierce banth roams a solitude whose silence is unbroken except for the roars of the killer and the screams of the dying.

Its avenues were covered with the sod of the mosslike ocher vegetation which clothes the dead sea bottoms of the red planet, and bordered by well kept lawns of crimson Barsoomian grass.

Several ocher columns jutted tens of meters up out of the foliage, like ancient giant trees that had died and petrified.

The sky glitters with stars, brilliant white, ocher, and blue, diamond facets against the velvet dark.

The road led across the flat, fertile countryside of the littoral plain toward the ocher hills of Judea, through the waking village of Ramleh.