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  • In the bag there was a bundle wrapped in thin lemon-yellow tissue paper, sealed with a pale-blue oval sticker with gold lettering on it.

    Archive 2009-09-01 lili 2009

  • In the bag there was a bundle wrapped in thin lemon-yellow tissue paper, sealed with a pale-blue oval sticker with gold lettering on it.

    Pink! lili 2009

  • "He's quite inoffensive, just a silly ass" is how readers are introduced to Campion, he of the "tow-coloured hair" and "foolish, pale-blue eyes behind tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles" in "The Crime of Black Dudley" 1929, a serviceable account of murders at a house party.

    A Queen of Mystery Sarah Weinman 2011

  • From behind her back, she pulled out a pale-blue stick and handed me the result of one of those home pregnancy test-kits.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Beyond the historical importance of the collection was the room itself—neo-gothic walnut cases with busts above the shelves under a pale-blue domed ceiling and in the center, an early-American eight-sided table heaving with ferns and more books on fantastic subjects like astronomy and geography.

    Bookish Good Looks Sara Ruffin Costello 2011

  • Yet, as I watched him pulling in good time at the oar, his large, pale-blue eyes seemed almost bovine -- the last man in the world, in my judgment, to have a Berserker fit.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • Fif­teen years later not a week goes by that I do not think about the fate of the pale-blue robe you gave me to wear on our anniversary vaca­tion by the waves

    Paradise Island Bill Yarrow 2011

  • From behind her back, she pulled out a pale-blue stick and handed me the result of one of those home pregnancy test-kits.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Fif­teen years later not a week goes by that I do not think about the fate of the pale-blue robe you gave me to wear on our anniversary vaca­tion by the waves

    Paradise Island Bill Yarrow 2011

  • From behind her back, she pulled out a pale-blue stick and handed me the result of one of those home pregnancy test-kits.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

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