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  • Every head turns to look as it passes slowly down Main, all glossy black paint and white-wall tires.

    Free « A Fly in Amber 2010

  • Where else, short of the forest, can you escape white-wall sterility, especially considering your art is a direct meditation on the pulsating vitality of the natural world?

    Buzzine » Order, Chaos, Light 2009

  • She really handled it well...not the bike, but all the comments about the width of the seat and the white-wall tires.

    Tales of an Alderwoman: The Malibu Returns Mindy Glover 2008

  • She really handled it well...not the bike, but all the comments about the width of the seat and the white-wall tires.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Mindy Glover 2008

  • Worth the fight: my baby blue/white-wall tired/fox-tailantennaed sweetie.

    Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994

  • XO Paul, whose white-wall, Marine-style short-crop was growing nicely into curly, Prince Valiant locks, shot against Jew.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • He was archetypal - He looked somewhere in his late thirties, with thinning, light-brown hair trimmed flattop above and white-wall on the sides.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • I thought of him as an older guy, although he was probably only in his late thirties when I met him: a wiry, gray-eyed, sharp-featured man about five feet ten, with white-wall haircut — very short — and missing the ring finger on his left hand from playing with one too many explosive devices.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • He sat for a moment on the low bare white-wall bookshelves and stared again at the body, lying faceup on a decaying fiber carpet mat.

    The Piano Teacher Robert K. Tanenbaum 1987

  • "He" is China's handpicked Panchen Lama, the second-most important religious figure in Tibetan Buddhism, and despite his formidable rank, his presence is not universally welcomed by the faithful in and around the white-wall Labrang Monastery that sprawls into a cavernous valley here.

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREW JACOBS 2011

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