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Great moon shaped vitamin C's that turned into a bitter chalk-like powder when you crunched down on them.
Vitamins 2010
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In the center of a grove of maples, H.A. MacNeil's larger-than-life bronze Indian stares at the rich ruins, chalk-like streaks of white running down his cheeks like tears.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Man to the Mansion Born 2010
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The general surface of the moon presents to the telescopic observer just that drear, cold, and chalk-like aspect, which our snow-clad mountains exhibit when the angle of reflection is similar to that in which we behold the lunar surface.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Rusty, covered in spots with the peculiar chalk-like earth of Northern
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker
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Must she endure his mocking glance with chalk-like cheeks and eyes like a beaten hound?
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The _caliches_, a chalk-like substance, easily worked, is another rich form of occurrence of the metal, and there are others less important.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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She made them drink the acid tea, and taste the chalk-like bread and butter sandwiches.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The chalk-like pallor of her face brought out with startling sharpness the deep, hollow caverns beneath her straight eyebrows.
The Foolish Virgin 1915
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The syringe had been filled with a preparation for spraying peach trees, and the son of the money-lender had discharged the chalk-like fluid all over the aged professor.
Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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After I had read the instructions Hardt produced a box of Swedish safety matches, which he emptied upon the table, and among them we saw two tiny tubes of glass hermetically sealed, one containing a white chalk-like powder and numbered "1," while the other was half filled with pale green powder and marked "2."
The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia William Le Queux 1895
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