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  • These roundabouts broke the monotony of the beautifully broad, green-fringed boulevard.

    Mexico City's miracle mile (or two) 2001

  • His ragged blue uniform bore the green-fringed epaulettes that showed he was a light infantryman and his flared shako was fronted with a white metal plate stamped with the French eagle and the number 31.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • These roundabouts broke the monotony of the beautifully broad, green-fringed boulevard.

    Mexico City's miracle mile (or two) 2001

  • The Aes Sedai's smile, as she adjusted her green-fringed shawl, was not nearly so pleasant as her voice.

    A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

  • Flinx followed patiently behind Saalahan and Teal, watching the children and their furcots swing fearlessly across green-fringed chasms that would have given a mature human athlete pause.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Joline shifted her green-fringed shawl on slender shoulders and smiled, though it seemed a bit forced.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • Her red blouse and bright yellow skirt and green-fringed shawl jarred the eye, but she had a motherly manner.

    The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992

  • The small, fair-haired Aes Sedai beside Ananda was Green Ajah, by her green-fringed shawl.

    The Shadow Rising Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1992

  • There was so very, very _much_ beauty -- the sky, azure blue overhead and paling where it touched the green-fringed earth; the whispering tree under which she lay, the lush meadow grass, moving like waves of a sea, the bird nesting above her, everything --

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • She was like some young priestess as she stood in the westering light on the green-fringed shore, one hand caught in the buckskin fringe at her throat and her eyes on Mr. Mowbray's upright face.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

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