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  • "McDonald's threw us out like a third world country in search of greener pastures," said Angelica Carrasco, a primary school teacher who stood next to a smiling Ronald McDonald, waving a red-gloved hand to the crowd.

    Daimnation!: The ultimate symbol of evil 2002

  • His red-gloved hand stroked his stubbly chin as he fine-tuned a sensor reading.

    Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001

  • When a pair of red-gloved hands reached down and grabbed him under his arms, Kranz, still operating under the momentary assumption that he was dead, cried out horribly certain that he'd just been sent to The Other Place.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

  • Sight slowly clearing, he saw that the hand on his arm was red-gloved and much larger than Tellin's.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • It seemed to Dalamar that he saw nothing now but the maw of the beast and the red-gloved hand of the mage reaching for him.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • At her side, Ailil fingered her reins calmly with red-gloved hands.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

  • Ailil was tall for a Cairhienin woman, if only for a Cairhienin, and everything about her was dignity and precision, from the arch of her eyebrow to the turn of her red-gloved wrist to the way her pearl-collared rain cape lay spread across the rump of her smoke-gray mare.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

  • Dr Simon smiled, and gracefully tapped his forehead with a red-gloved forefinger.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • At last from a little narrow chest, into which the remains had been almost crushed together, the bishop's red-gloved hands drew the dwindled body, shrunken inconceivably, but still with every feature of the face traceable in a sudden oblique ray of ghastly dawn.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

  • At last from a little narrow chest, into which the remains had been almost crushed together, the bishop's red-gloved hands drew the dwindled body, shrunken inconceivably, but still with every feature of the face traceable in a sudden oblique ray of ghastly dawn.

    Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

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