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  • Also, he noted what had already caught his eye before – a tiny strip of flesh-colored courtplaster on the forehead over one eve.

    When the World Was Young 2010

  • I have forgotten that part, but I remember the tiny spot of courtplaster just above your painted lips ....

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Also, he noted what had already caught his eye before -- a tiny strip of flesh-colored courtplaster on the forehead over one eve.

    When the World was Young 1913

  • I have forgotten that part, but I remember the tiny spot of courtplaster just above your painted lips ....

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • By the time Grim had changed into uniform and put courtplaster where his eyebrows should have been, and he, Abdul Ali and I had driven in an official Ford up the

    Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Except for a telltale bit of courtplaster, Inza showed no sign of the dangerous and exciting experiences through which she had that day passed.

    Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905

  • Just how many were roughly handled will never be known, but the unlucky thirteen had been severely beaten and maltreated up to a late hour, a number of those being in the Charity Hospital under the bandages and courtplaster of the doctors.

    Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1896

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