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  • She was naked except for white-brown furs spread under her like a rug and another heavy fur — perhaps her parka — draped over her shoulders and naked body.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • The white-brown powder around the waxed end-ropes indicated that some had to be flour.

    The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Over by the left wall, the real business was happening: two Mex National types counting a suitcase full of money while one Mickey guy and one Jack guy taste-tested the white-brown powder stuffed into reinforced paper bags in another suitcase.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • The youth carried a tray filled with a multitude of small dishes: white-brown shellfish, bread, several kinds of butter and other condiments, cinnamon bark, steamed tubers, smoked snails ...

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • A moment later they were hurtling along a white-brown ribbon of road that sloped sideways out of the valley and on to the top of the moor.

    Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

  • In the silence, a little white-brown hand strayed over his face and rested with delicious coolness upon the fevered brow.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • She bent closer and the next instant the man's burning cheek was pillowed against the soft coolness of her bared arm and his head was raised from the blanket while the tiny white-brown hand held the tin cup to his lips.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • The girl was pointing excitedly with a tapering white-brown finger to the fork of a great log where, caught on a sharp limb stub, was the striped sleeve of a mackinaw, from the end of which protruded a hand, while after the log, trailing sluggishly in the V of the fork, was the lifeless body of a man.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • She leaned closer, and unconsciously a slender, white-brown hand fell upon his, and the soft, tapering fingers closed upon his own.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • The girl reached into the shadows and a tiny white-brown hand appeared holding a dripping tin cup.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

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