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								So excuse me while I throw on this little dust-colored field jacket, the one with the shiny buckles and military-style epaulets, to summarize the action on these two fronts. Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Financial War With Two Fronts ... And One Wrong General 2010 
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								So excuse me while I throw on this little dust-colored field jacket, the one with the shiny buckles and military-style epaulets, to summarize the action on these two fronts. Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Financial War With Two Fronts ... And One Wrong General RJ 2010 
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								In the corners of the room, dust-colored mushrooms had sprung up in clusters between the tiles. Missionaries 2007 
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								In the corners of the room, dust-colored mushrooms had sprung up in clusters between the tiles. Missionaries 2007 
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								Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-colored sea, stretches south hundreds of miles to Baghdad and beyond. Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008 
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								And, I don't understand the appeal of the dust-colored frosting and the plastic stuff on top? The Displays That Time Forgot Jen 2008 
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								Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who slipped into the moat of the Champde – Mars. Les Miserables 2008 
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								You could get that dust-colored little girl a fistful of rice and lentils for the listless brother on her hip. Of Rajas and Rollers Gill, A. A. 2008 
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								No one knows what dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular opening. Les Miserables 2008 
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								Minnesota won championships in 1987 and 1991 without winning a single road game in either of those World Series, and the Metrodome - with the deteriorating, dust-colored ceiling and the din of a sellout crowd - is a difficult place for opponents. 
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