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  • EATING OUTSIDE: In the restaurants along the Nyhavn Canal you will find two distinct differences from al fresco dining in America: one -- big fluffy blankets provided for thin-blooded customers, and two -- yellow "remoulade" which is nothing like the pink New Orleans variety popular in America.

    Terry Kelhawk: It's Different in Denmark Terry Kelhawk 2011

  • When she said you could run, far as possible—into corners, caulked lay-bys where thin-blooded spiders spun webs of dismay—you took no note of her words, instead collating seventeen varieties of silken spider web into a wrist adornment.

    hunting for lizards James Claffey 2012

  • EATING OUTSIDE: In the restaurants along the Nyhavn Canal you will find two distinct differences from al fresco dining in America: one -- big fluffy blankets provided for thin-blooded customers, and two -- yellow "remoulade" which is nothing like the pink New Orleans variety popular in America.

    Terry Kelhawk: It's Different in Denmark Terry Kelhawk 2011

  • It has been pointed out in the past that, without all the vampire superstructure, Twilight would be just a thin-blooded teen romance about kids too scared to do anything really dangerous.

    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2010

  • The dim-witted, thin-blooded dinosaur was not a hot lover, another way in which it differed from the French.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • I don't recall seeing any portent in that frigid Washington welcome for us thin-blooded Southerners.

    My Inaugural Memories 2009

  • I was in my early forties, hired away from a thin-blooded job as a corporate speechwriter and public relations aide, and I was ready for something new, for a faith to embrace.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I was in my early forties, hired away from a thin-blooded job as a corporate speechwriter and public relations aide, and I was ready for something new, for a faith to embrace.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It was a stiflingly hot June, but Playfair was notoriously thin-blooded.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • I was in my early forties, hired away from a thin-blooded job as a corporate speechwriter and public relations aide, and I was ready for something new, for a faith to embrace.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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