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  • Yup-ik fish camps dotted the bank: single-celled cities made of whitewalled tents, or knobby poles nailed together and covered with blue tarps that flapped like the aprons of flustered old women.

    The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2006

  • The bed was tucked in a corner of the whitewalled room.

    Mission Of Honor Clancy, Tom 2002

  • And splashing down narrow stone-lined channels in between, the coffee-brown turbid water that fed them and the little whitewalled villages scattered along our route.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • Always, too, there are wonders of the other world about the heroes; women from undersea and underground come into their halls as naturally as the members of their own clans, and the twilight mists unfolding from familiar hills will reveal their marvelous duns, whitewalled with silver or marble, and thatched with the wings of white birds.

    Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

  • We lived on the South Side of Chicago, near the corner of 54th Street and Wabash Avenue, so I raced south down Wabash past the whitewalled commercial bakery that always smelled of sour yeast, across the weed- filled median on Garfield Boulevard, and east down a block past the liquor store, the Laundromat, and the shop that sold live chickens to housewives.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • We lived on the South Side of Chicago, near the corner of 54th Street and Wabash Avenue, so I raced south down Wabash past the whitewalled commercial bakery that always smelled of sour yeast, across the weed- filled median on Garfield Boulevard, and east down a block past the liquor store, the Laundromat, and the shop that sold live chickens to housewives.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Beijing 2010: Dongfeng shows off whitewalled, hand-crafted "Hummer"

    Autoblog Sam Abuelsamid 2010

  • Beijing 2010: Dongfeng shows off whitewalled, hand-crafted "Hummer"

    Autoblog Sam Abuelsamid 2010

  • Yup’ik fish camps dotted the bank: single-celled cities made of whitewalled tents, or knobby poles nailed together and covered with blue tarps that flapped like the aprons of flustered old women.

    The Tenth Circle Jodi Picoult 2006

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