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  • Sarah_Crown: Current pet hate: books with black-edged pages.

    Letters: Alone in Berlin is morally compromised 2011

  • Sarah_Crown: Current pet hate: books with black-edged pages.

    Letters: Mr Vaizey, in the library, with the axe 2011

  • We could observe every detail in her plumage: the six creamy spots down her grey-marbled shoulders, the rosette of black-edged throat feathers and the strangely thin beak with its protruding nostrils, and then those remarkable whiskers around the mouth sides that help guide her insect prey beetles, moths etc into that vast pink maw as she feeds on the wing.

    Country diary: Holt, Norfolk 2011

  • Her gold face, with black-edged jaws, coral-like antennae and those deep black eyes, was cracked.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • We could observe every detail in her plumage: the six creamy spots down her grey-marbled shoulders, the rosette of black-edged throat feathers and the strangely thin beak with its protruding nostrils, and then those remarkable whiskers around the mouth sides that help guide her insect prey beetles, moths etc into that vast pink maw as she feeds on the wing.

    Country diary: Holt, Norfolk 2011

  • He swivels one black-edged ear in my direction and looks at me without great surprise.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Bayard tumbled backward toward the Scorpion2s throne, and the dark-robed villain followed, his eyes glowing with a blue-white light, the pendulum bright in his lowered left hand, his black-edged weapon raised triumphantly in his right.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • Vanuatutwo equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a black isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) all separated by a black-edged yellow stripe in the shape of a horizontal Y (the two points of the Y face the hoist side and enclose the triangle); centered in the triangle is a boar's tusk encircling two crossed namele leaves, all in yellow

    Flag description 2008

  • Flag description: two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green with a black isosceles triangle (based on the hoist side) all separated by a black-edged yellow stripe in the shape of a horizontal Y (the two points of the Y face the hoist side and enclose the triangle); centered in the triangle is a boar's tusk encircling two crossed namele leaves, all in yellow

    Vanuatu 2008

  • So Abdullah entered and the Merman cried out, saying, “Ho, daughter mine!” when behold, there came to him a damsel with a face like the rondure of the moon and hair long, hips heavy, eyes black-edged and waist slender; but she was naked and had a tail.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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