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A soft blue sky with fleecy-white clouds makes the best background for a fair girl in a white dress.
Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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Under the overcast sky the great cataract lost the deep green and fleecy-white of the sunlit falling waters.
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Under the overcast sky the great cataract lost the deep green and fleecy-white of the sunlit falling waters.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The plant is social, and in some places where scarcely any other kind exists it covers large areas with a sea of fleecy-white plumes; in late summer, and in autumn, the tints are seen, varying from the most delicate rose, tender and illusive as the blush on the white under-plumage of some gulls, to purple and violaceous.
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Before our bath was ended a slight change had come over the sky and sea; fleecy-white clouds scudded here and there, and a muffled moan from the breakers caught our ears from time to time.
The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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The beauty of the sky and sea tempted her; fleecy-white clouds floated gently over the blue heavens; the sun shone upon the water until, at times, it resembled a huge sea of rippling gold.
Dora Thorne Charlotte M. Brame 1860
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