She was slightly tanned, just enough to set off the smoothness between waistband and blouse.

Speak-ing rapidly into Nick's ear was a man of average height, slightly tanned and with high cheek-bones.

After several weeks Isabel returned, her fair skin slightly tanned and her temper improved.

Bennett had his mother's olive skin, giving him a year-round look of being slightly tanned though he was hardly ever outside.

She would have been slender, slightly tanned, cornflower eyes, wearing a peasant sort of a smock thing, no doubt.

She was dressed in navy and white, her ivory skin slightly tanned and for once minus make-up.

This was Marius, with skin slightly tanned from his travels and a flashing beauty in his eyes.

"I was just tired," said the president, still slightly tanned from his recent and unaccustomed Caribbean vacation.

His hair was already going picturesquely grey around his slightly tanned, broad face.