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  • His beard, which should have been snow-white but which showed the same weather-wear and camp-stain as his hair, fell nearly to his waist in a great tangled mass.

    Page 1 2010

  • The paper was yellow with age and rotten from the weather-wear of trail, while the text was printed in Russian.

    CHAPTER 16 2010

  • At the verge of this field, a cliff of red sandstone, ribbed and seamed by centuries of weather-wear and beat of sea, overlooked the ample bay which opens into the Straits of Northumberland at their widest point.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • His beard, which should have been snow-white but which showed the same weather-wear and camp-stain as his hair, fell nearly to his waist in a great tangled mass.

    The Scarlet Plague 1912

  • The paper was yellow with age and rotten from the weather-wear of trail, while the text was printed in Russian.

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

  • His beard, which should have been snow-white but which showed the same weather-wear and camp-stain as his hair, fell nearly to his waist in a great tangled mass.

    The Scarlet Plague Jack London 1896

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