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The ‘brown-coloured’ people are from the mixed races ‘shankar’ of Aryan with both Dravidain and Tribal.
Sense & Sensuality 2009
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The ‘brown-coloured’ people are from the mixed races ‘shankar’ of Aryan with both Dravidain and Tribal.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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As she thought about the bathroom next to an enormous pile of product catalogues, it occurred to her that a single brown-coloured painting would be an original choice for the door of the WC.
Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009
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For example, if you grew up in the Arctic Circle, without having seen a black or grey/brown-coloured bear, without having access to media like television, you might "believe" or expect that all bears are white, like polar bears.
Nazism, Manipulative Extraterrestrials, and Alternative Realities 2008
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He was somewhere in the vague, brown-coloured slums to the north and east of what had once been Saint Pancras Station.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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He was somewhere in the vague, brown-coloured slums to the north and east of what had once been Saint Pancras Station.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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The country passed over consisted mostly of undulations of ironstone and gravel, with a brown-coloured rock occasionally, between which were broad valleys of a light-coloured soil, all cracked and having many deep holes, which, being hidden with the long grass, caused the horses to tumble into them, and made it very fatiguing both to them and us.
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It is deposited in fine, transparent, highly polished, brown-coloured laminae, possessing peculiar optical properties, on the inside of a vessel, in which cloth, first prepared with glue and then with lime, is made to revolve rapidly in water.
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The morning before we anchored at Porto Praya, I collected a little packet of this brown-coloured fine dust, which appeared to have been filtered from the wind by the gauze of the vane at the masthead.
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Whether the rat is really indigenous may well be doubted; there are two varieties as described by Mr. Waterhouse; one is of a black colour, with fine glossy fur, and lives on the grassy summit, the other is brown-coloured and less glossy, with longer hairs, and lives near the settlement on the coast.
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