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So excuse me while I throw on this little dust-colored field jacket, the one with the shiny buckles and military-style epaulets, to summarize the action on these two fronts.
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In the corners of the room, dust-colored mushrooms had sprung up in clusters between the tiles.
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Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who slipped into the moat of the Champde – Mars.
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No one knows what dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular opening.
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Minnesota won championships in 1987 and 1991 without winning a single road game in either of those World Series, and the Metrodome - with the deteriorating, dust-colored ceiling and the din of a sellout crowd - is a difficult place for opponents.
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Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-colored sea, stretches south hundreds of miles to Baghdad and beyond.
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And, I don't understand the appeal of the dust-colored frosting and the plastic stuff on top?
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You could get that dust-colored little girl a fistful of rice and lentils for the listless brother on her hip.
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The difficulties of winter and autumn, the heat of summer, spring like the spirit of life, winds and clouds and lightning — — all these help to make distinctions clear: so the dust-colored earth may bring forth all it holds in its heart, whether ruby or dull stone.
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The next day, Abdullah said, a group of Americans arrived at Qala Zeini in two dust-colored pickups.
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