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In the warm yellow-pink glow the figures diminished to a pair of ordinary warrant officers.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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In the warm yellow-pink glow the figures diminished to a pair of ordinary warrant officers.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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Their air sacs were fully inflated, the taut yellow-pink skin stretched thin as paper.
Surfeit Foster, Alan Dean 1982
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Meanwhile, Marrakesh and its adobe walls, of a sad yellow-pink tone, grew nearer and nearer, till at last the long line of crumbling tapia was but
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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The same colour can be obtained by mixing yellow-pink with Naples yellow; but it is then only fit for distemper.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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For distemper, indigo and yellow-pink, mixed with white lead or Spanish white, must be used.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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This may be obtained by various mixtures: black and a little blue, mixed with yellow; yellow-pink, with a little verdigris and lamp-black; or ochre and a small quantity of white, will also produce a kind of olive colour.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young
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On the shining wooden surface of the table there lay a delicate yellow-pink glove of paraffin, broad at the knuckles, thin at the wrist, two of the fingers bent down to the palm.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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On the shining wooden surface of the table there lay a delicate yellow-pink glove of paraffin, broad at the knuckles, thin at the wrist, two of the fingers bent down to the palm.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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The windows were intentionally above the level of the eyes of the seated pupils; but the picture of the musician was plain to Penrod, painted for him by a quality in the runs and trills, partaking of the oboe, of the calliope, and of cats in anguish; an excruciating sweetness obtained only by the wallowing, walloping yellow-pink palm of a hand whose back was Congo black and shiny.
Penrod 1914
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