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  • In the ladies 'bunker, Valerie is still amazed that she is back at the Atlas apartments, and not en route to Cleveland on the sad (Brother sewing machine-sponsored) steamship full of gray-faced peasants that I assume transports all of the eliminated contestants back home to their motherlands.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010

  • His puzzled gaze took in the dissipating fog, the tumbled books and scattered portfolios, the globe upended in its stand, the floor dirtied with chunks of frescoed ceiling, and Aidan slumped on the floor, gray-faced and shaky.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • In the ladies 'bunker, Valerie is still amazed that she is back at the Atlas apartments, and not en route to Cleveland on the sad (Brother sewing machine-sponsored) steamship full of gray-faced peasants that I assume transports all of the eliminated contestants back home to their motherlands.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010

  • His puzzled gaze took in the dissipating fog, the tumbled books and scattered portfolios, the globe upended in its stand, the floor dirtied with chunks of frescoed ceiling, and Aidan slumped on the floor, gray-faced and shaky.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • His puzzled gaze took in the dissipating fog, the tumbled books and scattered portfolios, the globe upended in its stand, the floor dirtied with chunks of frescoed ceiling, and Aidan slumped on the floor, gray-faced and shaky.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • In the ladies 'bunker, Valerie is still amazed that she is back at the Atlas apartments, and not en route to Cleveland on the sad (Brother sewing machine-sponsored) steamship full of gray-faced peasants that I assume transports all of the eliminated contestants back home to their motherlands.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010

  • She watched as the vampire woman lifted the glass to her lips, the human boy beside her standing gray-faced and trembling as she drank.

    Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

  • He was gray-faced with anxiety, and she found herself wondering how much he had invested in the team, how much he was depending on her success.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Ruby almost never saw any of them, and when she did they were gray-faced with exhaustion and covered with fresh burns and blisters.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • They stopped in front of smallish portrait of a rather gray-faced man who stared sullenly from the canvas.

    One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

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