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salt-and-peppery

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  • Dinky-Dunk, who keeps saying in unexpected and intriguing ways that he can't live without me, is trying to make love to me as he did in the old days before he got salt-and-peppery above the ears.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • For last night, after the usual demonstration, I slipped out to the Blue Room and found big Dunkie kneeling down beside little Dinkie's bed, with Dinkie's small hand softly enclosed in his dad's big paw, and Dinkie's yellow head nestled close against his dad's salt-and-peppery pate.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • And if he had come to me, in that mood of relapse, if he had come to me with the slightest trace of humility, with the slightest touch of entreaty, on his face, I'd have hugged his salt-and-peppery old head to my bosom and begged to start all over again with a clean slate ....

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • One day I'll wake up all salt-and-peppery, steel-rimmed as to pince-nez, and start two-year-old Tarquin on the Iliad in the original Greek before locking myself in my study with hard liquor and

    Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk Imogen Russell Williams 2010

  • His stomach is white, but the rest of him is silver; there's a different consistency and hue to the tail, which is more salt-and-peppery and very soft and fluffy.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Tom Cruise was cute in Risky Business but he got hotter as he got older and then he looked best in Mission Impossible all buff and with that cool buzz-cut look but he also looked hot all salt-and-peppery in that movie with Jamie Foxx where he was a killer, and he has great teeth and a good sense of humor and he really should have stayed with Nic, and the only thing I don't get is why he keeps dating taller women because he totally would look better with a short woman like myself.

    xenu-phobia 2005

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