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Close to her, very meek under her sheltering wing, were Sarah and Mary, the housemaids – very gay in papery silks, pink and green, with much adornment of wide yellow lace.

Mates at Billabong 1911

They range from a species of lichen and a plant called a papery whitlow wort, neither of which is hardly more than an inch or two high, to lovely purple-flowered scrub blazing star or the fragrant scrub mint with its delicate, orchid-like blossoms that are hard to miss in the landscape when they're in bloom.

Local News from The Lakeland Ledger 2009

As I sit here, today, trying on my new editorial hat, thinking up more orders to shout at Gary, I fancy myself in charge of the glossy New Yorker or the "papery" Le Monde.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

Those mushrooms are new to me here, kind of papery, I will have to try that poof.

I Call Your Name « Fairegarden 2008

Gleaming in high light under an equally light sky, they huddle almost one on top of the other, built upon every available square yard inside the "papery" old city wall, which looks as if cannon would blow it away.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Witt, a profound theologian and courtly gentleman; and the Rev.Dr. William C. Brownlee, with his vigorous Scotch accent, preaching against what he invariably called "papery" (popery), and recalling, as he did,

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

"She hasn't changed much, though; fallen away a little; her red cheeks have turned to a kind of papery white; her mouth has grown thin and

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

In a few minutes my breast was flat, the skin almost papery.

The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

“Yes,” she said in a papery voice before going back to her muttering chant.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

I felt papery bandages crinkle underneath the cotton.

The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011