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Examples
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He watches him set the twelve beers on the counter, and then look sad, almost, when your father adds a brown-red rose to the order, laying it on top of the case, smiling, as though his problems are over.
Around Close Chris Sheehan 2011
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The stone was a lovely brown-red color, darkened by the rain.
Following Magic Kathleen Duey 2010
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Beautiful art glass, amazingly detailed terra cotta, richly brown-red Roman brick -- this bank is a fitting tribute to the creative genius that inspired a new generation of progressive architects.
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He's wearing his omnipresent Vancouver Canucks sweatshirt, the front pocket stuffed with hot wheels cars and the 37 cents I paid him this morning for helping me rake sodden brown-red Maple leaves into a moist pile of fragrant decay.
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He's wearing his omnipresent Vancouver Canucks sweatshirt, the front pocket stuffed with hot wheels cars and the 37 cents I paid him this morning for helping me rake sodden brown-red Maple leaves into a moist pile of fragrant decay.
blog: November 2008 2008
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And then when he came to power, Yezhov proved a frenzied killer who arrived at the cabinet table with his cuffs speckled with a brown -- brown-red substance.
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On top of the courtyard floor, the team discovered small painted plaster fragments with a geometric decoration in white, brown-red, and purple, indicating that the walls of the courtyard were once plastered with colors complementing its purple floor.
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The palms of the hands and nails were stained with henna, or brown-red, and her feet were naked, with the toe-nails and soles henna-stained.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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The fire rushed in a dusky mass upon the blackened, flickering images, till nothing was to be seen but a confused bush of smoke and brown-red flames, puthering, reeking, roaring.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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There was more promise in a crooked apple tree covered with brown-red fruit.
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