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  • "What d'ye mean, you yellow-faced heathen, lying here in a fairway without a horn a-going?"

    YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

  • Barry watched the yellow-faced actor with empathy.

    How to Be a Conqueror Matthew Salesses 2010

  •            The noise of sirens outside wasjarring, I cranked the windows shut,  the yellow-faced clock in the kitchen ticked, and down the narrow green hallway Marla walked in bare feet, sandals in hand,  like an adult trying to sneak away from a sleeping child.

    Heavenly Blue Morning Glory 2009

  • He was a yellow-faced, green parakeet, like those native to Australia.

    When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009

  • I couldn't have told you a brown marmorated stink bug from a yellow-faced pink bellied cootie before the internet, at least not without a trip to the library*, and that wasn't going to happen with a the thermometer reading 4 degrees Fahrenheit -16 Celsius for those in more enlightened countries.

    Archive 2009-01-01 doyle 2009

  • Delft blush by Renoir waft narcotic aroma over bright, bearded blobs of Van Gogh impasto-ed, yellow-faced primroses under their feet.

    Painters' Palette (Impressionists of Spring) 2009

  • I couldn't have told you a brown marmorated stink bug from a yellow-faced pink bellied cootie before the internet, at least not without a trip to the library*, and that wasn't going to happen with a the thermometer reading 4 degrees Fahrenheit -16 Celsius for those in more enlightened countries.

    Unexpected life in January doyle 2009

  • Sure enough, the little yellow-faced servant had come in without knocking.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Sure enough, the little yellow-faced servant had come in without knocking.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • And the Haleakala silversword, a bizarre long-leafed plant that blooms with hundreds of magenta flowers once every 50 years, is on the ropes: an ant that sneaked in from Argentina kills the native yellow-faced bees that pollinate the silversword.

    Aliens Invade America! 2008

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