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  • In a small house crammed with red - and black-painted bamboo sticks, she deftly rolls incense dough, getting ready for upcoming Buddhist holidays when people burn incense at temples.

    Catholic Relief Services: Help for Sri Lanka's Abused Maids Catholic Relief Services 2010

  • In a small house crammed with red - and black-painted bamboo sticks, she deftly rolls incense dough, getting ready for upcoming Buddhist holidays when people burn incense at temples.

    Catholic Relief Services: Help for Sri Lanka's Abused Maids Catholic Relief Services 2010

  • As Annie pelted down the hall, Dante half slid, half fell to his knees on the Oriental carpet, his black-painted nails scraping furrows along the threshold on his way down.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • As Annie pelted down the hall, Dante half slid, half fell to his knees on the Oriental carpet, his black-painted nails scraping furrows along the threshold on his way down.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • She sat on the floor in the darkened entrance hall, her back against the black-painted wall, her knees drawn up to her chest.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • She sat on the floor in the darkened entrance hall, her back against the black-painted wall, her knees drawn up to her chest.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • He remembered the spare anchor - chain, new and black-painted, that hung under the house suspended from the floor-beams, and ordered it to be used on the hospital as well.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • Even as he spoke, they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe, and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner, swinging to her just-caught anchor.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Wasps wriggle beneath black-painted fingernails . . .

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Wasps wriggle beneath black-painted fingernails . . .

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

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