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According to the Daily Mail, "Designed as IV drips for alcoholic patients in hospitals (who are undernourished from drinking more than they eat), this yellow-coloured liquid is being snapped up by those who opt out of eating in order to fit into their Kova & T Latex leggings."
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Remember When Kate Moss Was Skinny? 2008
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He went to the window of his apartment, and found the street enveloped in one of those thick, dingy, yellow-coloured fogs, which often invest the lower part of London and Westminster.
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Colostrum, the early, thicker, yellow-coloured breast-milk, acts as the first immunization, and provides a super-dose of antibodies and vitamins.
Chapter 6 1997
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The artillery Colonel cursed that the damned British had burned out the mill's roof with their sortie, and cursed again because his howitzers had to give up the unequal struggle when their pits filled with yellow-coloured floodwater.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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There was very little dark red here except away on top, 2300 feet above, where a covering of pines made a soft background for light-cream and gorgeous yellow-coloured pinnacles, or rocky walls of pink and purple and delicate shades of various hues.
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Some of the English mottled soaps, especially those made from materials which give a yellow-coloured ground, are bleached by soaking in brine, or pickling in brine containing 2 per cent. of bleach liquor.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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The foreheads of the betrothed couple are smeared with the nut and with some yellow-coloured rice and they bow low to the elders of the caste.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Following the directions of the monkey, Sam-Chaong carefully scraped away the yellow-coloured tracings which he tried in vain to decipher; and when the last faint scrap had been finally removed, the huge, gigantic boulder silently moved aside with a gentle, easy motion and tilted itself to one side until the prisoner had emerged, when once more it slid gracefully back into its old position.
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There was a lot of green with bright yellow-coloured stripes.
The Diary of a Nobody Grossmith, George, 1847-1912 1921
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Men, as a general thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow-coloured novel line, sensation-drama line, city-editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poorhouse.
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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