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Settle into your most comfortable soft furnishings, feast on expensive paté and enjoy with me the blue-faced terror of some perfectly nice people who we, for no reason at all, wish beastly things upon.
I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2011: launch night liveblog 2011
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Lop-Ear and I sit close together, with our arms and legs about each other, blue-faced and with chattering teeth.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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If you can't laugh at Anthony van Dyck's boozed-up cavaliers, Thomas Gainsborough's cadaverous, blue-faced debutantes or Damien Hirst's 13-foot shark in a few thousand gallons of formaldehyde, you're really missing out on some great fun.
Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum Joe Queenan 2011
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In "Paris Through a Window," a human-headed yellow cat perches on a window sill; the Eiffel Tower looms above mansard roofs; a parachute-jumper descends from the tower; an upside-down train and two figures float past; a blue-faced, Janus-headed man lurks in a corner, holding a heart in his blue palm.
Beyond Fragile Fantasies Karen Wilkin 2011
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The blue-faced man was sitting at a desk on which there were two stacks of crinkled, smoothed-out paper that had obviously been rescued from a trash can.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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The blue-faced man lowered the piece of paper in his right hand onto the left-hand stack, transferred it instantly to the right-hand stack, then lifted it once again into the air.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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It isn't the massive bird kills (especially royal terns, blue-faced boobies, piping plovers, and snowy plovers) caused by Ixtoc, most of whose oil stayed far out at sea rather than hitting vulnerable coasts.
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Only now did the blue-faced man look in his direction.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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The drumbeat has grown louder in recent months for Comic-Con to seriously consider relocating elsewhere in Southern California -- Los Angeles or Anaheim are wooing the sexy and successful 41-year-old -- if not Las Vegas, because really: What the colorful Strip really needs is an annual influx of blue-faced Na'vi nerds and pancake-faced Jokers.
Has COMIC-CON outgrown San Diego? 9 big-time guests tell us where to go 2010
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I woke once, suddenly, and opened my eyes to see a blue-faced Tuareg staring down at me, his loose turban falling away from an impassive face.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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