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  • "Ah — the Covent Garden," said one American COO I met recently, as I whipped out a hot pink-striped pencil to make a note, "me too." www. firmdalehotels.com

    Coolhunter: Firmdale Hotel Pencils 2010

  • That doesn't stop it from being absolutely charming, though, with a pink-striped awning, dark chocolate walls accented with hot pink, and ornate chandelier inside.

    Reader review of Philadelphia's Brown Betty Petite 2008

  • The blue trousers, the waistcoat of a material called “Scotch stuff,” a sky-blue cravat and a pink-striped cotton shirt, expressed, in the midst of all this ruin, such a latent desire to SHOW-OFF that the contrast was not only a sight to see, but a lesson to be learned.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • Showing a preteen girl in a pink-striped shirt who decides to cut loose and "throw her duncans" during a punk rock show?

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • Showing a preteen girl in a pink-striped shirt who decides to cut loose and "throw her duncans" during a punk rock show?

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • In his early thirties and in race-biking shape, Skelton wore a pink-striped shirt with white cuffs.

    Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001

  • Doe covered his pink-striped pyjamas with a grey silk kimono embroidered with flowers -- the chance of wearing which garment reconciled him to this cold and early rising -- and followed me sleepily.

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

  • But in the interval between doffing pink-striped shirt and donning pink-striped shirt ....

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • But in another three months Chug Scaritt was one of a million boys destined to take off a pink-striped shirt, a nobby belted suit, and a long-visored cap to don a rather bob-tailed brown outfit.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • He is in his shirt sleeves, with a vest figured with faded gold horseshoes, and a pink-striped shirt, suggestive of peppermint candy.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

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