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  • One can imagine the massive, voluble late-period Orson Welles telling his stories to pale, skinny, black-dressed, but deeply grateful Bogdanovich in the desert -- which may be one the most magical images I can imagine.

    Austin Pendleton Speaks. Patrick J. Smith 2009

  • But a score of black-dressed young men tried to shield Kuo, and a few of the protesting crowd, including a press reporter, complained they were beaten up, airport police said.

    High Class Mainlanders Arrive In Taiwan Michael Turton 2009

  • One can imagine the massive, voluble late-period Orson Welles telling his stories to pale, skinny, black-dressed, but deeply grateful Bogdanovich in the desert -- which may be one the most magical images I can imagine.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Patrick J. Smith 2009

  • But a score of black-dressed young men tried to shield Kuo, and a few of the protesting crowd, including a press reporter, complained they were beaten up, airport police said.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • * Belarus - This was good relative to the first two, but still goofy, with backup "dancers" splaying their black-dressed selves all over some white blocks in the background.

    Archive 2007-05-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • There were murmurs of agreement from Mary's two ladies, and Jane Dormer wondered aloud whether a brief sight of the black-dressed maid disappearing around the bole of the tree as Elizabeth jumped to her feet could have been what her lady had seen.

    Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • A black-dressed woman, her gray hair covered in a black scarf, beat at an officer's horse with a broom, evidently screaming at the rider to go away.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • She saw legs, a body, curled fingers clutching the sleeve of a black-dressed witch dummy…

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • She saw legs, a body, curled fingers clutching the sleeve of a black-dressed witch dummy…

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • At first Sharpe did not recognize the tall, black-dressed woman whose carriage, attended by postilions and outriders, drew up under the chateau's crumbling arch.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

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