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  • Those gentle hands had made all this -- the very furniture, she guessed as her eyes roved from desk to chair, from work table to reading stand beside the bed in the other room, where stood a green-shaded lamp and orderly piles of magazines and books.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • Under the green-shaded table lamp in our study, Pons took the German book from his pocket and handed it to me.

    Let Us Meet In The Afternoon sara t. 2010

  • The wood paneling on the wall was separating at the ceiling, and the only light at seven P.M. came from one of those green-shaded, fluorescent desk lamps everybody had when I first entered insurance investigation after Vietnam.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • The green-shaded brass lamp cast a circle of light on Deane's desk.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • Alone of all the green-shaded lamps in the room, the one above Rankin's typewriter was alight, shedding a ghastly radiance on the blank sheet of paper in his machine.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • Where you see these green-shaded areas, those are flood warnings.

    CNN Transcript May 17, 2009 2009

  • Winston could see the writing-table with its green-shaded lamp and the speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Winston could see the writing-table with its green-shaded lamp and the speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • And of course the phrase is a cliché outside the world of politics, too, showing up in earnest op-eds and green-shaded pronouncements.

    No Time to Declare Independence 2008

  • But thinking like a green-shaded M.B.A., ever attentive to the bottom line, it clearly makes little if any financial sense for the Bulls to re-sign Jordan.

    Let Him Walk!!! 2008

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