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Examples
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But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature.
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She looked at the rose-white tenderness of Kitty Bonner's skin and remembered the sun-beat on her own face.
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How sad to recollect in the dull-eyed face the rose-white boy.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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How sad to recollect in the dull-eyed face the rose-white boy.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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With a little start she shakes it off, almost fearing to touch it with her dainty rose-white fingers.
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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The skin is rose-white, and, like that of the last named, changes to silvery-white about the upper portion of the stem, or bulb; the leaves are longer, deeper colored, firmer, and less subject to wither or decay at their extremities, than those of the Common Red.
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'My rose-white maidens,' said Martin, 'will you not let me into your orchard?
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He was fated to feel the awe and mystery and beauty of a rose-white love which he saw hourly trampled in the grime of the streets.
Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912
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She looked at the rose-white tenderness of Kitty Bonner's skin and remembered the sun-beat on her own face.
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But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature.
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