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  • The actress Helena Bonham-Carter - with her famously big eyes and china-white skin - was followed by film critic John Pym and his wife, Hope.

    Richard C. Morais: Culinary Tips From a Film Wallah 2010

  • The actress Helena Bonham-Carter - with her famously big eyes and china-white skin - was followed by film critic John Pym and his wife, Hope.

    Richard C. Morais: Culinary Tips From a Film Wallah 2010

  • Occasionally the china-white upper valve is decorated with a broad streak of buff.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • He was a tall, lean-waisted man, with dark brown skin, against which his strong teeth and the china-white of his eyeballs made startling contrast.

    Star Flight Norton, Andre 1954

  • He was a tall lean-waisted man, with dark brown skin, against which his strong teeth and the china-white of his eyeballs made startling contrast.

    The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954

  • He was a tall lean-waisted man, with dark brown skin, against which his strong teeth and the china-white of his eyeballs made startling contrast.

    The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954

  • With proper food and air and freedom, he began to have a faint pink flush in his china-white cheeks; his lids no longer drooped, his limbs seemed to regain their joints, his hands ceased to swell, he complained less and less of the pains about his heart.

    Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

  • Headingly lay with that china-white cheek resting motionless upon the stones.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "I'm done!" he whispered, as the Colonel ran to his aid, and then he lay still, with his china-white cheek against the black stones.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Occasionally the china-white upper valve is decorated with a broad streak of buff.

    Tropic Days 1887

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