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  • But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • She looked at the rose-white tenderness of Kitty Bonner's skin and remembered the sun-beat on her own face.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • How sad to recollect in the dull-eyed face the rose-white boy.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • How sad to recollect in the dull-eyed face the rose-white boy.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • With a little start she shakes it off, almost fearing to touch it with her dainty rose-white fingers.

    Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

  • The skin is rose-white, and, like that of the last named, changes to silvery-white about the upper portion of the stem, or bulb; the leaves are longer, deeper colored, firmer, and less subject to wither or decay at their extremities, than those of the Common Red.

    The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

  • 'My rose-white maidens,' said Martin, 'will you not let me into your orchard?

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • He was fated to feel the awe and mystery and beauty of a rose-white love which he saw hourly trampled in the grime of the streets.

    Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

  • She looked at the rose-white tenderness of Kitty Bonner's skin and remembered the sun-beat on her own face.

    The Story of Jees Uck 1904

  • But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature.

    The Story of Jees Uck 1904

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