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  • But in the main cave there was something more exciting: dozens of light-brown hairs bristling out of a patch of ground.

    So Far, So Good Sara Clemence 2012

  • Lizzy's long fingers traced the unvisited skin between her breasts and navel, her light-brown hair curled around her neck in a hand-twisted pony tail, dipping down her collar and flirting with my left shoulder, whispering and tickling upon my back as I bobbed within her symmetry.

    Pectoralis Minor Johnny Dantonio 2010

  • One of them, a tall, good-looking young man with light-brown skin, smiled at Hannah.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • I have brown-skinned Atlanteans (defaulted in my mind to people who are light-brown skinned, like myself, but not explicitly stated), and then, beyond them, I think I pretty much defaulted to white people.

    Describing Characters of Color, pt. 2 « 2009

  • One of them, a tall, good-looking young man with light-brown skin, smiled at Hannah.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • She's a model-thin large white dog with warm light-brown spots.

    Checking In at the Doggie Hotel Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

  • She's in her early thirties; long light-brown hair with long bangs, and a killer smile that not enough people get to see.

    Odin's Day ellyssian 2009

  • One of them, a tall, good-looking young man with light-brown skin, smiled at Hannah.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • The top one I had drawn over her face to shelter it from the night, so I could see nothing but the vague shape of her, and her light-brown hair, escaped from the covering and jewelled with moisture from the air.

    Chapter 27 2010

  • A stream idly trickles through football-sized boulders down to the sea, while soothing sweeps of light-brown sand provide a backdrop to jutting rock formations that point arrow-like towards the Atlantic.

    Secret beaches of the southwest: Mouthmill Beach 2011

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