browning

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In the rear of the great multitude of geese came a churl, tall and young, and comely enough for all his embrowning in the sun and wind, and his unkempt hair and rude dress.

From A Child's Book of Saints by Robinson, T. H. (Thomas Heath)

Rather was it improved by the slight embrowning, as the bloom enriches the skin of the apricot.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

The steppe was full of the play of birds, and the broad breeze passed over it, drying the water and embrowning the faces of men.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Now the broad sun, refulgent lamp of day, To rest with Thetis, slopes his western way; O'er every tree embrowning dust is spread, And tipt with gold is Hampstead's lofty head.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

The embrowning woods, and swollen rivers, the evening mists, and morning frosts, were welcomed with gratitude.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft