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Skin sloughed away in parchment-thin flecks, circling the drain.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Skin sloughed away in parchment-thin flecks, circling the drain.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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He rose silently from their pallet and slipped into his wool tunic and parchment-thin sandals.
The God Hater Bill Myers 2010
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His heart broke all over again as he felt her ribs sticking out beneath her parchment-thin skin.
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To make readers -- this reader, anyway -- suspend disbelieve and buy into a monumentally far-fetched plot, if only for entertainment purposes (not that this novel purports to be merely entertainment), you have to it believable on the sentence and paragraph level: characters (Brown's are parchment-thin), dialogue -- oy, Brown's dialogue!
Jack Huberman: Who's Screwing America -- Battle of the 100 Lists 2008
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"Bodil Manz" illustrates 40 years of ceramic work by Bodil Manz (b. 1943) from early expressionistic pieces to parchment-thin and transparent cylinders.
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Anyway, fresh-baked rye bread just cool enough to slice, parchment-thin Westphalian ham layered with equally-thin Emmenthaler Swiss, stone-ground Raye's honey mustard from a mill about as far east as you can get in the continental US.
Beginnings are such delicate times... jhetley 2006
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He turned his great yellow eyes toward me, like pools of livid fire, and his parchment-thin lips moved in what probably passed for a smile.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Mixiotes: These flavorful, parchment-thin outer layers of the maguey (a cactus) leaves are used as natural wrappings for pieces of chicken or lamb which have been marinated in seasonings that include fresh marjoram, garlic, orange juice, avocado leaves (which give the dish a wonderful, heady aroma and flavor) and achiote paste.
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Mixiotes: These flavorful, parchment-thin outer layers of the maguey (a cactus) leaves are used as natural wrappings for pieces of chicken or lamb which have been marinated in seasonings that include fresh marjoram, garlic, orange juice, avocado leaves (which give the dish a wonderful, heady aroma and flavor) and achiote paste.
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