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  • I feel like I am always in this hospital room on a tiny table that digs into my back staring up a the brown-stained water-damaged tiles that look they are going to collapse and drop asbestos into my mouth.

    The Weak Force Benjamin Matvey 2011

  • I held up my brown-stained sneaker so he could see it in the rearview mirror.

    Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

  • She looked at her glass, the brown-stained ice rattling in it like stones.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • She looked at her glass, the brown-stained ice rattling in it like stones.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • She looked at her glass, the brown-stained ice rattling in it like stones.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • I held up my brown-stained sneaker so he could see it in the rearview mirror.

    Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

  • At Welly's approach, his old pack camels looked over in their usual smile-lipped way, chewing their cud with thick, brown-stained teeth.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • Her well-bedecked frame continues to draw the eye with a sparkle here, a well-stitched line there, her pert ears tipped with odd bead-and-braid bobs and the rest of her otherwise-unremarkable brown-stained leather garments decorated wild enough to make you think 'gypsy' until the detail of the stitching and care of each trinket's arrangement hints at someone who is more well-off than she seems.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006

  • Handsome tiger and leopard skin rugs, the fur of a musk-ox for his divan, and tanned and brown-stained goat and kid skins for his tables, gave a sense of elegance and reserved profusion.

    The Financier 2004

  • The cop stuck the moist morsel back between his brown-stained teeth and nodded at his partner to continue.

    A Corpse is a Corpse Browne, Richard W 2001

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