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  • A soft blue sky with fleecy-white clouds makes the best background for a fair girl in a white dress.

    Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

  • Under the overcast sky the great cataract lost the deep green and fleecy-white of the sunlit falling waters.

    VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 1914

  • Under the overcast sky the great cataract lost the deep green and fleecy-white of the sunlit falling waters.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • The plant is social, and in some places where scarcely any other kind exists it covers large areas with a sea of fleecy-white plumes; in late summer, and in autumn, the tints are seen, varying from the most delicate rose, tender and illusive as the blush on the white under-plumage of some gulls, to purple and violaceous.

    The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

  • Before our bath was ended a slight change had come over the sky and sea; fleecy-white clouds scudded here and there, and a muffled moan from the breakers caught our ears from time to time.

    The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • The beauty of the sky and sea tempted her; fleecy-white clouds floated gently over the blue heavens; the sun shone upon the water until, at times, it resembled a huge sea of rippling gold.

    Dora Thorne Charlotte M. Brame 1860

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