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								She put both arms around my mother, and my mom felt the clammy dead-white skin attaching itself to her back like an octopus. the snake charmer Jerry Ratch 2011 
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								Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail. 
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								Beyond, on the opposing slope, the vague outlines of a glacier loomed dead-white through the driving rain. SIWASH 2010 
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								Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail. 
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								He fell to the left, hitting his dead-white head against the stones. Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010 
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								Following her down was a large, flabby man with dead-white hair. Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010 
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								Francine put both arms around Bess, and Bess felt the woman's clammy dead-white skin attaching itself to her back. 
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								Tattoos would have added some visual interest and helped cover all that dead-white motionless flesh. Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010 
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								He looked up then; his face was dead-white, unshaven and sheened with a cold sweat that had soaked his hair and shirt. Sick Cycle Carousel 2010 
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								Her large black eyes, accentuated by heavy kohl makeup, set off her rounded, dead-white face. Theda Bara. 2009 
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