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  • I stood at the massive, ivy-covered gate in my Catholic schoolgirl uniform: blue-and-gray plaid pleated skirt, crisp Peter Pan-collared shirt, kneesocks, and shiny black spit-polished shoes.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • I stood at the massive, ivy-covered gate in my Catholic schoolgirl uniform: blue-and-gray plaid pleated skirt, crisp Peter Pan-collared shirt, kneesocks, and shiny black spit-polished shoes.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • The company claims that its 500 million users spend more than 10 billion hours every month looking at that blue-and-gray Web site.

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new email, messaging system Washington Post Staff 2010

  • Congressional, with its landmark six-level, 110,000-square-foot blue-and-gray stone Mediterranean-styled clubhouse, is maybe a twenty-five-minute drive from the Capitol, depending on the vagaries of Washington traffic.

    Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010

  • Mr. Collins sat in a small office he now shares, wearing one of the eight dark suits he owns, a white shirt with French cuffs, a blue-and-gray striped tie and a pair of expensive wingtips.

    A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison Sean Gardiner 2010

  • Inside, forensic examiners found the Big Bopper's well-preserved corpse, dressed in a black suit and a blue-and-gray striped tie.

    Not a Hair Out of Place in 48 Years 2009

  • Inside, forensic examiners found the Big Bopper's well-preserved corpse, dressed in a black suit and a blue-and-gray striped tie.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Indeed, they try to be as visible as possible because "the best deterrent is a blue-and-gray [police car] in your rear-view mirror," she says.

    New Radar Detectors 2008

  • We took the 280 to Cesar Chavez, and from there went to Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, where the crime lab was housed inside a blue-and-gray concrete building.

    The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • His pajamas, she noticed, were a dignified blue-and-gray stripe.

    Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

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