[…] so through every conceivable shade of red, lilac and purple to a vinous maroon of the deepest dye, with freakings and freckles and all manner of fantastic adornments.

Hari Singh laughed schoolboyishly through the nest of beard.

The squareish track was flat and suited horses with a turn of foot, which exactly described the two runners that Brewer was sending there on the day following Matt's return from Sedgefield.

When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.