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"Your gown of ` hodden-gray 'is wonderfully becoming, Beck," Lennox said again and again with a secret exulting pride in her.
Lodusky 1995
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Summer was evidently tired of its own lusty life, and had a mind to put on a cowl of hodden-gray, and call itself
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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Behind the sheep walked an old laborer in hodden-gray, woolen bonnet, and shepherd's two-fold plaid, with a lamb in the pouch of it.
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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"Your gown of 'hodden-gray' is wonderfully becoming, Beck," Lennox said again and again with a secret exulting pride in her.
Lodusky Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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And the poet, too, of poor men, of hodden-gray, and the Guernsey-coat, and the blouse.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870
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His clothes, coarse and homely, were made from home-grown wool, shorn off his own sheeps 'backs, carded and spun at his own fireside, woven by the village weaver, and, when not of natural hodden-gray, dyed a half-blue in the village vat.
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