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  • Then she snatched a mirror from the silent maid and after scrutinizing all the looks and smiles which pass between lovers, she shook out her wrinkled earth-stained robe and flounced off into the temple of Venus (nearby.)

    Satyricon 2007

  • OK, you KNOW you're gay when you put on your roughest clothes to go out and do yard work, but you make sure to pick a brown belt that'll go with your old torn, earth-stained tan button fly work jeans.

    DesignerBlog Will 2006

  • OK, you KNOW you're gay when you put on your roughest clothes to go out and do yard work, but you make sure to pick a brown belt that'll go with your old torn, earth-stained tan button fly work jeans.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Will 2006

  • The altercation between the doctor and two old men in earth-stained clothes had awakened me.

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • The greater number of them were earth-stained diggers, who ran up for, it might be, a missing tool, or a hide bucket, or a coil of rope.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • The undies looked zombie white against her earth-stained bones.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • An old man, a gardener by his earth-stained apron, emerged from one of the nearby doors of the Palace and limped up the path toward Vanyel.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • An old man, a gardener by his earth-stained apron, emerged from one of the nearby doors of the Palace and limped up the path toward Vanyel.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • The undies looked zombie white against her earth-stained bones.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • The undies looked zombie white against her earth-stained bones.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

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