nut brown

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What he wrote me was this: Dear little Nut-brown Maid all mine, of course you would come, but you mustn't.

From Kitty Canary by Bosher, Kate Langley

Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

Then, darker shadows seeking still, Where human foot had seldom stray'd, I read aloud to every Hill Sweet Emma's Love, 'the Nut-brown Maid.'

From Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs by Bloomfield, Robert

An English mob under the chin, and artless ringlets, in natural colour, that shall restore an admiration for Prior's Nut-brown Maid.

From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John

Henry and Emma is a paraphrase of the old ballad of the Nut-brown Maid, and not so good as the original.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney