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I glanced about and then, looking down at the counter, ran a gloved finger down its length, scoring a mahogany-coloured groove in the patina of dust that covered it.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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I glanced about and then, looking down at the counter, ran a gloved finger down its length, scoring a mahogany-coloured groove in the patina of dust that covered it.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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Blushes came with difficulty on her dead-white complexion, under the negligently twisted opulence of mahogany-coloured hair.
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Going round to the terrace, I found three mahogany-coloured
The Moonstone 2003
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As though flies were crawling over her, she made her dark mahogany-coloured hide dance, but did not pull away.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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The mahogany-coloured mummy of Ra-Orkon seemed to be resting peacefully inside its case.
The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy Arthur, Robert 1965
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The rotten soil is cleft and torn into gulleys and small channels, in which the mahogany-coloured rivulets, springing from the peat morass, straggle silently with a sluggish motion in harmony with the lifeless scene.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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Topping a rise, the whole undulating country was r ` tam and palmetto: occasionally a flock of goats moved on its face, tended by thin mahogany-coloured Arab boys in dirty woollen tunics.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Scarcely had they alighted when a third cab came up, and from it dashed a mahogany-coloured young man with grey hair, and assisted a lady to alight.
An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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Khosha is a little man, with a mahogany-coloured wrinkled face.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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