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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... eyes and saw that it was one of the sailor’s feet, sticking out of bed close to my face. It was dark brown, quite dark brown like an Indian’s, with dirt. The walls were leprous, and the sheets, three weeks from the wash, were almost raw umber colour. I got ... |
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[ DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS]
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| ... P. Eyma faizaliana named after the son of the describing author M. Kh. Faizal fallax La. - deceitful, deceptive fusca La. 'fuscus' - dark brown predominantly dark brown pitchers glabrata La. 'glaber' - hairless, smooth smooth pitchers gracilis La. 'gracilis' + superlat. slender and graceful pitchers gracillima La. 'gracilis' + dimin. small, slender pitchers gymnamphora ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass, Passing the yellow-spear''d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... slowly the necessary planting and cross-breeding to reduce the tulips which he had grown already from red to brown, and from brown to dark brown. By the next year he had obtained flowers of a perfect nut-brown, and Boxtel espied them in the border, whereas he had himself ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... complained that you call her daughter simply Anna. In future you must give her a handle to her name.&cdq; Daniel Thwaite was a dark brown man, with no tinge of ruddiness about him, a thin spare man, almost swarthy, whose hands were as brown as a nut, and whose ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... is neither too long nor too short; my leggings and shoes are matched with all possible accuracy; my tunic is white; my Circassian jacket, dark-brown. I have long studied the mountaineer seat on horseback, and in no way is it possible to flatter my vanity so much as by ... |
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[ ESSAYS]
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| ... small portion of his forehead and nose visible to me. An Indian I took him to be, from his coarse, lank, grey hair and dark brown skin. I was in a large hut, falling at the sides to within two feet of the floor; but there were no hammocks in ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... me in his surly way. He had a face like something carved out of a bit of root, and only two teeth, which were dark brown and very long. 'Hey, young 'un! Fisherman, ain't you?' 'Yes.' 'Thought you was. You listen, then. If so be you wanted to, you ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... unrecognisable remains of foods, bread, some toast, and a tin of condensed milk. The table-cloth, originally of a red colour, was stained a dark brown at the captain's end, apparently with coffee; at the other end, it had been folded back, and a pen and ink-pot stood on ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... and well built. His hands were white and shapely and he was well groomed, though not in the least foppish. The troublesome eyes were dark brown, sheltered by a pair of tinted glasses. His face was very expressive, responding readily to every change of mood. They talked "shop" for a ... |
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[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... east. There I found at last a little school. Josie told me of it; she was a thin, homely girl of twenty, with a dark brown face and thick, hard hair. I had crossed the stream at Watertown, and rested under the great willows; then I had gone to the ... |




