“Up close, I see that his eyes are brown. Dark, dark brown. Nearly black.Sinful.”

“his brown eyes are intoxicating, and in that moment, I see my escape.”

“I met his dark brown eyes. His fingers skimmed the back of my hand. The sensation tickled like a spring breeze yet hit me like a wave rushing from the ocean.”

“A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.”

“At April'Toss your gay heads,Brown girl trees;Toss your gay lovely heads;Shake your brown slim bodies;Stretch your brown slim arms;Stretch your brown slim toes.Who knows better than we,With the dark, dark bodies,What it meansWhen April comes a-laughing and a-weepingOnce againAt our hearts?”

“With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..”