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  • There were two paths—a red-and-gray harlequin-patterned walk that led directly to the west steps of the Capitol, and a curved walkway lined with blooming magnolias and flowering cherry trees closer to the House of Representatives.

    The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010

  • It was a source of pride to have driven one of those red-and-gray trucks, to have worked for men like "Preach" Meaders and Logan Campbell and my immediate supervisor, Jimmy Johnson (men who would have been lost on M Street), and the tool-pushers and roughnecks we worked with out in the field.

    Bushes Buff Up Big Oil, While Amazon.com Oozes 2000

  • Anna glanced at the wall of red-and-gray rock layers.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • Anna glanced back at the walls of Stromwer, reddish in the dawn light, rising out of dark red-and-gray cliffs.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • The distant pass was already overshadowed by the red-and-gray bulk of the Ostfels, and by the growing darkness of clouds that rose out of the eastern horizon to challenge the mid-morning sun.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • All the POWs, with the exception of Jackson, it seemed, understood that flouting the orders of several soldiers eager to reduce your brain to tiny chunks of red-and-gray ooze was just short of lunacy.

    Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988

  • From his desk he produced a triangular piece of red-and-gray cloth.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • Under an overhanging ledge, they found two cushions, a red-and-gray blanket, and some odds and ends of old garments that looked as though they had once been used for polishing rags.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • Under an overhanging ledge, they found two cushions, a red-and-gray blanket, and some odds and ends of old garments that looked as though they had once been used for polishing rags.

    Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • By the time she got there, the woolly red-and-gray blankets were saturated with sun-light, and she sometimes fell asleep as soon as she stretched her body on their warm surfaces.

    The song of the lark 1915

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