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  • His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • It's a scene familiar to moviegoers: as fires burn, bombs explode and shrapnel flies, the ash-smeared hero marches on, undaunted and unafraid.

    Where Big Is Beautiful 2007

  • ‘Art thou only a beginner?’ said E23, labouring literally for the dear life, as he slid out of his body-wrappings and stood clear in the loin-cloth while Kim splashed in a noble caste-mark on the ash-smeared brow.

    Kim 2003

  • Then there were holy men, ash-smeared fakirs by their brick shrines under the trees at the riverside, with whom he was quite familiar — greeting them as they returned from begging-tours, and, when no one was by, eating from the same dish.

    Kim 2003

  • Lurgan Sahib laughed immensely, and begged Kim to stay as he was, immobile for half an hour — cross-legged, ash-smeared, and wild-eyed, in the back room.

    Kim 2003

  • Her voice was firm, her hands steady despite the gaunt look on her burned and ash-smeared face.

    Firestorm L.A Graf 2000

  • The hand not holding the knife floated up to her face and touched her ash-smeared cheek.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

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