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Commodities like preserved sea cucumbers, sea urchins, needle fish roe, basking shark eggs, and various species of small kelp crabs and azure-colored sea snails are in great demand.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Commodities like preserved sea cucumbers, sea urchins, needle fish roe, basking shark eggs, and various species of small kelp crabs and azure-colored sea snails are in great demand.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Anyway, that Rolling Stone article sure made it sound like the War in Afghanistan wasn't this perfect, azure-colored gemstone of surpassing clarity and beauty, did it?
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She was dressed in a silk petticoat of almost lemon yellow and an azure-colored silk bodice that left her arms and shoulders bare to the light that played on them from three small oil lamps above her.
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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The beautiful white snow, the pure azure-colored waters of the lake, and the appearance and feelings of this little handful of ragged, half-starved, wornout prisoners, presented a sorrowful and pitiable contrast.
John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ... 1893
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Your little azure-colored Nature gave me true satisfaction.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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The ball of fire, half white, half azure-colored, about the size of a ten-inch bombshell, moved along, turning with prodigious rapidity to leeward of the storm.
Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866
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Your little azure-colored Nature gave me true satisfaction.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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And there was a thick row of blossoming lilac bushes shading the lower windows the whole breadth of the building, in which innumerable golden and azure-colored birds made their nests, and beguiled the spinster's labors with their melodious carrolings.
Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828
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The hangings of the beds and windows were of the richest azure-colored satin, fringed with silver, which seemed the livery of the mansion.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828
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