sandstone colors

Literary analysis:

In literary works, "sandstone" is often employed as a color adjective to evoke an earthy, warm palette that suggests both the natural world and the artistry of human construction. Authors describe buildings and landforms with hues of red, tan, gray, and even white sandstone, creating images that are at once timeless and evocative. For example, the vivid depiction of houses built of red sandstone [1] and the grand arch crafted from smooth, red sandstone [2] highlight this tendency, while references to gray sandstone structures [3] and a monument “clothed in white sandstone” [4] further amplify its visual resonance. Similarly, the varied tones of buff, light red, and tan sandstone [5, 6, 7, 8] serve to underscore a natural, enduring quality that enriches the literary landscape with its subtle yet powerful imagery.

Houses of red sandstone, their fanciful windows, projecting balconies, and flat roofs, giving to them a character all their own.
— from Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. by Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir
There was a broad arch of one hundred feet in the smooth, red sandstone through which we entered.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt
The houses, constructed with a gray sandstone, are neat and well built; and the public edifices, particularly the cathedral, are extremely elegant.”
— from The Book of Curiosities by John Platts
We turned our backs upon this peculiar monument, and left it in its loneliness and its grandeur—“clothed in white sandstone, mystic, wonderful!”
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles
Late Triassic Wingate Sandstone Buff and light red sandstone.
— from The Geologic Story of Colorado National Monument Revised Edition by Stanley William Lohman
Walls were made of rectangular blocks of tan sandstone which quite often were carefully shaped and ground to give a pleasing effect.
— from Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico by John M. Corbett
New red sandstone.
— from A Manual of Elementary Geology or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments by Lyell, Charles, Sir
It is constructed entirely of white marble, while the three lower ones are only of red sandstone.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

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