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  • Then Bill Kuntsler won his most successful defense in his suit against the Washington, D.C. school system from "tagging" black students, a white racist tactic where they decided by the third grade what black kids should be trained to do, like being maids, servants, waiters; only the most exceptional and most white-like ever able to be trained for the possibility of going to college.

    Keepin' On Keepin' On The Daily Growler 2006

  • Another thing i love about eggs is their colours and by that i mean the differents shades of their shell but also the different shades of the yolks : i love to see how red they seem to be in Italy compared to the pale white-like egg yolks in England and the perfect yellow in France.

    foodbeam » E is for… Eggs 2005

  • Another thing i love about eggs is their colours and by that i mean the differents shades of their shell but also the different shades of the yolks : i love to see how red they seem to be in Italy compared to the pale white-like egg yolks in England and the perfect yellow in France.

    foodbeam » 2005 » August 2005

  • Den I saw Miss May -- dat's yer granma, turn white-like, an 'she say,' Oh Delphy, oh James '-- dat's yer grandpa --' de ole well in de field! de ole well in de field! '

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • The boy remembered that when his grandfather had died, his face had also become so strangely white-like.

    The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

  • And when he went away he looked so queer -- so white-like -- and somethin 'inside me has been singing ever since.

    The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • His eyes were a little heavy, but his complexion was a delicate and unnatural pink and white-like a piece of fine porcelain.

    The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • His eyes were a little heavy, but his complexion was a delicate and unnatural pink and white-like a piece of fine porcelain.

    The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • His eyes were a little heavy, but his complexion was a delicate and unnatural pink and white-like a piece of fine porcelain.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • She looked white-like as she beheld the bursting of the sprays, the green seas that sometimes poured upon the fore-castle, and the perpetual bounding and swooping of the boat among the billows; but she stood firmly by her father's orders.

    David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

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