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  • "This dream of a rosy-pink Europe, once so powerful that even our most anti-western thinkers and politicians secretly believed in it, has now faded."

    Reflections on the Comment is free year | Natalie Hanman 2010

  • Well, consider what the difference of five degrees could do to a juicy, rosy-pink New York strip you order medium-rare.

    Anthony Giglio: Chill Your Red Wine (Please!) 2008

  • The rosy-pink Little House, on a hill surrounded by apple trees, watches the days go, by from the first apple blossoms in the spring through the winter snows.

    But will they serve The Big Salad? 2005

  • At noon we met the “heaven-sent, life-sustaining sea-breeze;” and now the broad and well-marked Wady Makná, with its rosy-pink sands, narrowed to a gut, flanked and choked on both sides, north and south, by rocks of the strangest tricolour, green-black, yellow-white, and rusty-red.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The birds began to sing, and the sun came up, streaking the water and the sky with ribbons of rosy-pink.

    To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

  • Tristan groaned, his gaze devouring as it moved from her tumbled curls to the creamy column of her throat, then lower, to where her breasts shone, alabaster in the candlelight, their crests budding rosy-pink, yearning for his touch so fiercely they ached from it.

    A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995

  • Tristan groaned, his gaze devouring as it moved from her tumbled curls to the creamy column of her throat, then lower, to where her breasts shone, alabaster in the candlelight, their crests budding rosy-pink, yearning for his touch so fiercely they ached from it.

    A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995

  • Flowers numerous, and developed all round the outside of the stem, stalkless, nestling closely between the tubercles, and when expanded looking like starry buttons of a rosy-pink colour.

    Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

  • At the summit of this crown the small rosy-pink flowers are produced, half protruding from the mass of wool, and these are succeeded by small red berries.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • The sky was a very pale blue, and rosy-pink clouds floated about it.

    Five Run Away Together Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1944

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