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  • She opened the door, only her head appearing at first, her hair a wild explosion of tan-coloured, tight corkscrew curls.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • No birds visit now and the tan-coloured leaves shaped like saw-toothed hearts hang limp.

    Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

  • Boy in Black keeps asking me questions: Do you've a tan-coloured shirt that would fit me?

    Costume-making frenzy e 2008

  • Boy in Black keeps asking me questions: Do you've a tan-coloured shirt that would fit me?

    Archive 2008-11-01 e 2008

  • Dust blowzes over the road in spectral tan-coloured folds.

    Some descriptions of southern European landscape Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Dust blowzes over the road in spectral tan-coloured folds.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • A youth with tan-coloured hair, that needed clipping very badly, came shuffling along between the machines, bearing a basket of leather findings under his left arm, and pressed against his stomach.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • And then she did come, running down in her tan-coloured frock and black velvet cap, and passed him into the drawing-room.

    To Let 2004

  • Her grey fur collar was open, showing her soft throat and pale green dress, her little, plaited tan-coloured hat came down to her ears, round her soft, fresh face.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

  • He was wearing a tan-coloured leather safari jacket, tight white trousers, and an opennecked shirt.

    Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994

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