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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.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Financial War With Two Fronts ... And One Wrong General

In the corners of the room, dust-colored mushrooms had sprung up in clusters between the tiles.

Missionaries

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.

Les Miserables

No one knows what dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular opening.

Les Miserables

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?

The Displays That Time Forgot

You could get that dust-colored little girl a fistful of rice and lentils for the listless brother on her hip.

Of Rajas and Rollers

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.

Marjan’s Tooth

The next day, Abdullah said, a group of Americans arrived at Qala Zeini in two dust-colored pickups.

The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan