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  • Dressed in a pristine, floor skimming, figure hugging, light-hued pastoral gown, Long looked every inch the part of a strong and pure man of God.

    Zandile Blay: Bishop Eddie Long: A Wolf in Chic Clothing? Zandile Blay 2010

  • Dressed in a pristine, floor skimming, figure hugging, light-hued pastoral gown, Long looked every inch the part of a strong and pure man of God.

    Zandile Blay: Bishop Eddie Long: A Wolf in Chic Clothing? Zandile Blay 2010

  • First, paleness is a genuine issue that only others of the light-hued persuasion truly comprehend.

    Just for a moment, I wanted a burkini too | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • This dark jam turned my cookie dough purple and I realized that, esthetically, a light-hued jam would have looked much better.

    Buttery Jam Cookies 2008

  • This dark jam turned my cookie dough purple and I realized that, esthetically, a light-hued jam would have looked much better.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Her appearance and personality were, of course, quite unlike Tune's; no light-hued hair, no merry cleverness here.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Her appearance and personality were, of course, quite unlike Tune's; no light-hued hair, no merry cleverness here.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • But he was liable to intercurrent fits of jealousy and rage, such as the light-hued races are hardly capable of conceiving, -- blinding paroxysms of passion, which for the time overmastered him, and which, if they found no ready outlet, transformed themselves into the more dangerous forces that worked through the instrumentality of his cool craftiness.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

  • Its fittings were in the pleasantest of light-hued paints and varnished pine: maps, casts, and pictures enlivened the walls and corners; a handsome library and nucleus of a museum, with reading tables, opened to the left, and a large debating hall to the right -- together occupying the whole of the principal floor.

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • And at last came an Indian canoe -- two -- three, filled with light-hued, hardly more than tawny, folk, with cloth of cotton about their middles and twisted around their heads, with bows and arrows and those new bucklers.

    1492, 1922

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