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His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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His pleading monkey eyes meet mine through the dingy, ash-smeared windshield.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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It's a scene familiar to moviegoers: as fires burn, bombs explode and shrapnel flies, the ash-smeared hero marches on, undaunted and unafraid.
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‘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
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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
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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
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Her voice was firm, her hands steady despite the gaunt look on her burned and ash-smeared face.
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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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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