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  • Nothing says the ‘1930s’ like a sheenless color spectrum.

    Friday Night updates – The Bleat. 2009

  • Moonlight shone on the water below, a sheenless black taffeta, and she thought of the mourning dresses women had once worn to signal their grief to the world.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • Moonlight shone on the water below, a sheenless black taffeta, and she thought of the mourning dresses women had once worn to signal their grief to the world.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • Moonlight shone on the water below, a sheenless black taffeta, and she thought of the mourning dresses women had once worn to signal their grief to the world.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • Moonlight shone on the water below, a sheenless black taffeta, and she thought of the mourning dresses women had once worn to signal their grief to the world.

    The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007

  • Helen, pale and too weak to climb down from their redoubt, stared from above with sheenless, drooping eyes.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • What threw me at first was the dark, sheenless hair, which I soon realized was dyed.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • Among the purple Marine suits and the blue Navy suits and the orange civilian tech suits, their dull sheenless green stood out ruggedly, earth brown and horizon blue patches and camouflage streaks breaking up their outlines, not a single scrap of bright work about them, every sur­face dulled and drab.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • It was the season of full summer when the midlands, clothed with their rich but sheenless mantle of green, wear a self-satisfied air, as of dull people conscious of deserved prosperity.

    The Invader A Novel

  • We could descry, in the morning sunlight, military trappings, tattered cloaks, ragged tunics, dingy kilt-straps, sheenless helmets, unkempt beards, and brawny arms in the crowds which packed the narrow streets.

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

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