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Examples
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Everyone wanted to stand next to me, to compare their summer tans with my paper-white skin.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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“All this time, I knew there was something familiar about him, something that made me uneasy,” Cooper said, his face paper-white.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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If cut flowers strike you as too ephemeral, perhaps you'd prefer giving a houseplant such as amaryllis, cyclamen, African violet, paper-white narcissus, orchid, Boston fern, florist hydrangea, hibiscus, crown of thorns Euphorbia milii or spider plant.
Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011
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“All this time, I knew there was something familiar about him, something that made me uneasy,” Cooper said, his face paper-white.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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Everyone wanted to stand next to me, to compare their summer tans with my paper-white skin.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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The mountain air, the pure water, and the paper-white mist reminded her of the famous “cloud seas” of Droop Mountain in the Alleghenies, where she grew up.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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The mountain air, the pure water, and the paper-white mist reminded her of the famous “cloud seas” of Droop Mountain in the Alleghenies, where she grew up.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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They were paper-white and skinny, knobs sticking out of his elbows.
The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010
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Even in printmaking, where paper-white is the natural timbre, Matisse managed to find a way to go dark.
MoMA show is the Matisse we don't know -- blacks, whites and the grays in between 2010
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Faces half-painted: a paper-white forehead and glitter-drenched hair above pale lips and blotchy cheeks.
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