The curtains all parted, and from the midst of each there stepped a little nutbrown maid, who seemed too lovely to be Indian.
"Winds of the World"
Talbot Mundy
O the nutbrown tresses nodding interlaced!
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
To "turne a crab" is to roast a wild apple in the fire in order to throw it hissing hot into a bowl of nutbrown ale, into which had been put a toast with some spice and sugar.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner