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  • He came striding into Dalwhinnie station after his twelve or more mile drive to reach me, and stood four-square in front of where I sat on a brown-painted bench against a margarine wall.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • The large, brown-painted nineteenth-century house itself had been retrofitted with all the accoutrements of modern-day security that we could afford.

    Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • Real architects would not put ugly brown-painted aluminum-framed windows in their polypropylene candy fun houses.

    Crushed by Madoff: a dream of immortality through architecture. Ann Althouse 2009

  • He was curiously like his own brown-painted motor car, with eye-glasses for windshield.

    Main Street 2004

  • A woman, her red arms massive, stood behind the table while a young man, equipped with a riding crop, lolled on the hall's low dais above which a biblical text arched across the brown-painted wall.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • Across the weeds and dead-looking grass, a tall brown-painted door was set into the high brick wall, and it was this door that freshly upset Victor by again not having its bolts, top and bottom, firmly slid into place.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • A hundred feet up the trail was another sign, this one resembling the signs in national forests, yellow burnt-in letters on brown-painted boards: 'Welcome.

    The Night Crew Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1997

  • He came striding into Dalwhinnie station after his twelve or more mile drive to reach me, and stood four-square in front of where I sat on a brown-painted bench against a margarine wall.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • Dart unlocked a brown-painted door and let us into the bowels (well, literally) of the house.

    Decider Francis, Dick 1993

  • I reached the brown-painted board-and-batten building that housed the Santa Teresa Shellfish Company.

    I is for Innocent Grafton, Sue 1992

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