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  • An austere emotion carried the eye upwards from milk-blue roofs to the gray rock bastion above … Beyond that, in a dazzling pyramid, soared the snow slopes of Karakal … the loveliest mountain on earth. p.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • An austere emotion carried the eye upwards from milk-blue roofs to the gray rock bastion above … Beyond that, in a dazzling pyramid, soared the snow slopes of Karakal … the loveliest mountain on earth. p.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • An austere emotion carried the eye upwards from milk-blue roofs to the gray rock bastion above … Beyond that, in a dazzling pyramid, soared the snow slopes of Karakal … the loveliest mountain on earth. p.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • I leaned against the side of the mountain: no longer did I stand shouting and hurling challenges at my opponent, but looked at him with milk-blue eyes.

    Look Back on Happiness 2003

  • Seventy-eights changed in slow motion from tone arm to turntable under an illuminated canopy of milk-blue glass, and dropped down the spindle with an audible sigh.

    December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

  • On the opposite shore, there was another ridge of mountains, cloaked in a myriad of green shades and contrasted by a milk-blue sky.

    Fox Fire Light Janet Dally 1982

  • On the opposite shore, there was another ridge of mountains, cloaked in a myriad of green shades and contrasted by a milk-blue sky.

    Fox Fire Light Janet Dally 1982

  • He found himself thinking of her constantly; at every instant he saw her round, pale face; her narrow, milk-blue eyes; her little out-thrust chin; her heavy, huge tiara of black hair.

    McTeague 1920

  • James stood by the window, silent as ever, looking at the day that was a-dying, with a milk-blue sky and tenuous clouds, copper and gold.

    The Hero 1919

  • I leaned against the side of the mountain: no longer did I stand shouting and hurling challenges at my opponent, but looked at him with milk-blue eyes.

    Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905

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