"Wine-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wrinkled with paste, on which those words stood out. Nothing, unless it were such strange titles as the Testament de Cesar Girodot, or Oedipe-Roi, inscribed not on the green bills of the Opera-Comique, but on the wine-coloured bills of the Comedie-Francaise, nothing seemed to me to differ more profoundly from the sparkling white plume of the Diamants de la Couronne than the sleek, mysterious satin of the Domino Noir; ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... wine-coloured, against the black walls that hemmed it in, black walls scattered with sheets of glass, absurd curtains of muslin, brown, shabby, self-ashamed backs of looking-glasses, door-knobs, flower-pots, and collections of furniture, ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole |
