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She said vaseline for his ashiness, toothpaste and Q-tips.
Lori Bell: Operation Christmas Love: 5 Ways to Fill a Military Care Package
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She said vaseline for his ashiness, toothpaste and Q-tips.
Lori Bell: Operation Christmas Love: 5 Ways to Fill a Military Care Package
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All that blonde couldn't hide the lines in her face and all that tan couldn't hide the lacklustre ashiness of her skin.
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A curious fact was the circumstance that whenever Nilushka sighted a stray gleam from a piece of glass, or the glitter of a morsel of copper in sunlight, he would halt dead where he was, turn grey with the ashiness of death, lose his smile, and remain dilating to an unnatural extent his clouded and troubled eyes.
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The moonlight caught her eyes; eyes that were trying, like the lips, to smile, but that were really looking away into the future, which she saw stripped of companionship and love, and gray with the ashiness of wretched desolation.
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A curious fact was the circumstance that whenever Nilushka sighted a stray gleam from a piece of glass, or the glitter of a morsel of copper in sunlight, he would halt dead where he was, turn grey with the ashiness of death, lose his smile, and remain dilating to an unnatural extent his clouded and troubled eyes.
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The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eyeballs—what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him?
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The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eye-balls -- what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him?
Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eyeballs -- what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him?
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
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The difference is that the ashiness shows up on dark ethnic skin.
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