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Their ghostly appearance is enhanced by the fact that the undersides of their chalk-white wings are dark brown, so with every upstroke they seem to disappear in the moonlight, then reappear on the downstroke.
Country diary: Blanchland, Northumberland-Durham border 2011
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Their ghostly appearance is enhanced by the fact that the undersides of their chalk-white wings are dark brown, so with every upstroke they seem to disappear in the moonlight, then reappear on the downstroke.
Country diary: Blanchland, Northumberland-Durham border 2011
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To be fair, I don't know the character well, but, for me, the "big deal" about Kate Kane is that she, a jewish woman, is drawn with flaming red hair and chalk-white skin like some pathetic fetishized "vampire as alternate lifestyle choice" Anne Rice/Twilight wannabe.
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Physically, Lobo resembles a chalk-white human male with blood-redpupil-lesseyes surrounded by blackmascara-like patches.
Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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“The witness,” Suup said, and the shutters went up in her brain, letting blinding chalk-white laser light into her synapses, crashing through walls and defenses like a tornado, guilt establishing itself as the winner over the rest of her turbulent thoughts.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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In front of Annika lay an endless chalk-white landscape with roaring clouds of snow and deep blue sky.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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The skin peeled back, falling in tatters, revealing the chalk-white bone of his skull, and underneath, the gray-brown folds of his brain.
Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010
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As Davis tried to fend off the inevitable, so did Lincoln's preservationists: "Lincoln's face turned darker by the day, and the embalmer tried to conceal this with fresh applications of chalk-white potions."
The Long Goodbye 2010
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“The witness,” Suup said, and the shutters went up in her brain, letting blinding chalk-white laser light into her synapses, crashing through walls and defenses like a tornado, guilt establishing itself as the winner over the rest of her turbulent thoughts.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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In front of Annika lay an endless chalk-white landscape with roaring clouds of snow and deep blue sky.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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