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  • Peter dropped my hand and turned to look out the dust-streaked windshield at the empty sidewalk.

    Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008

  • Peter dropped my hand and turned to look out the dust-streaked windshield at the empty sidewalk.

    Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008

  • Peter dropped my hand and turned to look out the dust-streaked windshield at the empty sidewalk.

    Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008

  • At that very moment, Sophie, sitting in the truck's passenger seat, glanced back at us through the dust-streaked window.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • He pulled on his stained and dust-streaked tunic, belted the scabbard around his waist and thrust his sword into the scabbard that was smeared with her blood, and stalked to the door of the chamber.

    Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

  • It was Alain who turned toward him first, his dazed eyes seeming to float in his dust-streaked face.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Raschid offered her security and she took it gratefully like a tired child too exhausted to reason, her head dropping like a dust-streaked flower too heavy for the slender stem supporting it.

    Falcon's Prey Jordan, Penny 1997

  • He gawks at the building, at the dust-streaked panes, the overgrown stone walk that leads nowhere, as if he had not expected the desertion.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • He rushed at once into the hotel, and his earnest, dust-streaked face so impressed the officer on duty outside the

    The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods Robert Maitland

  • By the time he returned she had removed her hat, gloves and spurs, washed her dust-streaked face, smoothed her hair, slipped on an enveloping apron over her riding clothes and had the chops frying.

    The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

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