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  • She put both arms around my mother, and my mom felt the clammy dead-white skin attaching itself to her back like an octopus.

    the snake charmer Jerry Ratch 2011

  • Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail.

    THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL 2010

  • Beyond, on the opposing slope, the vague outlines of a glacier loomed dead-white through the driving rain.

    SIWASH 2010

  • Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail.

    The Wisdom of the Trail 2010

  • He fell to the left, hitting his dead-white head against the stones.

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • Following her down was a large, flabby man with dead-white hair.

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • Francine put both arms around Bess, and Bess felt the woman's clammy dead-white skin attaching itself to her back.

    Summer At Lake Elsinore 2010

  • Tattoos would have added some visual interest and helped cover all that dead-white motionless flesh.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • He looked up then; his face was dead-white, unshaven and sheened with a cold sweat that had soaked his hair and shirt.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Her large black eyes, accentuated by heavy kohl makeup, set off her rounded, dead-white face.

    Theda Bara. 2009

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