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  • May 27, 2009 at 5: 09 am love batman's adam west-y face and robin's chin bandaid

    Straight for the art | Rafael Grampá draws Batman and Robin | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • He's placed them against a robin's egg-blue background and made a key alteration by painting one of the brown spots a marine blue.

    For Baldessari, Art Imitates Art Paul Levy 2011

  • For a few minutes the red stones of the tower, flanks of sheep and tops of trees in the parkland glow pink in this pastoral landscape, and a robin's song is distinct above the background urban hum from across the estuary.

    Country diary: Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall 2011

  • Navy and stark white served as a "canvas" for dynamic colors like electric orange, robin's egg blue and cerulean, said Mr. Allen.

    At Hugo Boss, Tradition With a Twist Mary M. Lane 2011

  • Jens Kalaene/European Pressphoto Agency This men's gimlet in a bolder robin's egg blue offers men a summer alternative to the traditional suit.

    Hugo Boss Spring/Summer 2012 2011

  • Every so often, Gaucho plays over a loudspeaker somewhere, and I am transported to an early morning beach, my bare feet splashing along the edge of Key Biscayne's robin's egg blue water as it stretches east to welcome another of Miami's perfect sunrises, my eyes not yet ready to close for sleep.

    May You Live in Interesting Times JP Reese 2011

  • I said I'd have to think about it, and took the buckle back Mr. Hamilton courteously provided me a trademark tiny Tiffany robin's egg blue pouch to carry it in in the hope that if I looked harder that evening, the pin would miraculously reappear on the floor of my closet.

    He's Come Undone Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The colors themselves dazzle: blues from the palest robin's egg to the deepest cyanide and cobalt; a deep blue-black background for the white Pelicanus Americanus; crimson red and paler pinks for the flamingo; so many shades of beige, brown and gray for the owls that you can't tell where one stops and another begins; an iridescent rainbow for ducks; a psychedelic palette for finches.

    The Joys of Slow Looking Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • It had been a modest, two-story, robin's egg blue house in North Austin.

    All God's Creatures Oliver Hunt 2011

  • A fresh solution to the common man's conundrum -- sporting tops more formal than a shirt yet more relaxed than a traditional suit -- was found in a robin's egg blue gilet, open at the hips save for a strap on each side.

    At Hugo Boss, Tradition With a Twist Mary M. Lane 2011

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