protective coloring

But DesJarlais clawed his way back into voters’ good graces by latching onto establishment figures and adopting the protective coloring that defines “creature of Washington”.

If there are any of us left who regret the gentlemen of old—who still prefer our Darcy or even our Plantagenet Palliser—we must write our own novels, and divine our own heroes under the protective coloring of their conventional breeding.

And the protective coloring is carried out in the nest carefully tucked under a piece of loosened bark in the very heart of the tree.

It first opens its eyes on the world in a nest neatly woven of grasses, laid on the ground among the grass that shelters it and furnishes it with food and its protective coloring.

These latter are a strange tropical family four hundred strong, and all the very essence of protective coloring.