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  • "Living in Sepia" by D. Richard Pearce was another in-your-face shocker, this one with a little twist in the tail.

    Kittehs update editormum 2007

  • Amanda Pillar's contribution, "The Letter", felt a little similar to "Living in Sepia", but was of a different style and the ending was a bit disappointing.

    Kittehs update editormum 2007

  • She is the author of the novels Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, The Infinite

    Isabel Allende biography 2005

  • They were all brown alike, but of different shades of that colour, and would have made a life-like drawing in Sepia – Sclaves, bears, children, and ponies.

    A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

  • She called Sepia, who for a few nights had slept in her room, to the window.

    Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

  • He used the medium of Sepia, which is in essence, brown ink applied with a crow quil pen, or brush.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Zillabob 2007

  • He used the medium of Sepia, which is in essence, brown ink applied with a crow quil pen, or brush.

    Sepia Dragon! Zillabob 2007

  • By some, the pigment known as Sepia has been supposed to enter into their composition.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Sepia, which is a preparation of the dark-coloured liquor of the cuttle fish, was also bleached by chlorine, but the black matter of the lungs was not destroyed or bleached in the slightest degree by chlorine, it even survived unimpaired the destruction of the lungs by putrefaction in air.

    An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar

  • Her name was Septimia; Lady Margaret called her Sepia, and the contraction seemed to so many suitable that it was ere long generally adopted.

    Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

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