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  • Brooklyn's Finest Tom Collins mixes Brooklyn Gin with a dash of honey in place of the traditional sugar in a tall, green-striped glass.

    Serious About Cocktails 2011

  • Fiftyish, she wore a green-striped blouse, her curly red hair sprouting and spiraling in every direction.

    The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves 2010

  • Suddenly a group of second years, their green-striped ties loosened around their necks, pushed open the library door, joking and talking loudly.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • Suddenly a group of second years, their green-striped ties loosened around their necks, pushed open the library door, joking and talking loudly.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • The first of these was published in 1920 and showed a smiling shipwrecked man, still wearing his green-striped pyjamas, sitting astride a giant floating jar of Bovril with the slogan, “Bovril prevents that sinking feeling”.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Steve 2009

  • Its best-known works include the angular red, ochre and green-striped campus of the California Endowment in downtown Los Angeles.

    The Green House of the Future 2009

  • There's a person there with a green-striped shirt.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009 2009

  • The hotel room was pleasant enough, but she was sick of seeing the same beige/brown walls, the same floral bedspread, the same skinny desk and chairs, the same gold mirror, green-striped curtains, and green rug.

    The Cure for Modern Life Lisa Tucker 2008

  • The hotel room was pleasant enough, but she was sick of seeing the same beige/brown walls, the same floral bedspread, the same skinny desk and chairs, the same gold mirror, green-striped curtains, and green rug.

    The Cure for Modern Life Lisa Tucker 2008

  • An hour later we were belting up the M1 in a green-striped Lotus Cortina.

    Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

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