David Ewalt, who diagnosed the brownish juice as tending toward hickory, spices and woodsmoke, called it interesting.

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It was just four feet long, but strong, with a brown body, white belly and baleful, brownish-yellow eyes.

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Mine are often a lovely brownish-mud color thanks to a magic ingredient called FROZEN MIXED BERRIES from Costco.

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It is a brownish grey, with a few bits of stone mixed in.

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That was where the motley sediments of ancient Mars were succeeded by layer upon unvarying layer of brownish rock, two miles high.

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In Jan van Goyen's 1653 "View of the Rhine" (where he made a sketching trip in 1650-51), the lowering, brownish-gray sky takes up about 60% of the picture.

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Moreover, much of the coal he bought from Burlington is low-quality lignite, a brownish fuel one step removed from peat, which can't be transported because it tends to spontaneously combust.

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Further afield, Kenji World, (81-19) 695-3333, in northern Japan's Iwate prefecture, boasts a colossal onsen "beach" where warm water washes up on the shore (made of brownish soft board instead of sand).

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Some schoolgirls also wear their skirts above the knee, and the more adventurous go one step further by dyeing their hair brownish-orange and flaunting such contraband as flashy jewelry or oversized V-neck sweaters.

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Things blowing up in a reddish-brownish-tannish color scheme.

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