He searched his dirty white sarong, which was the only garment on his body, for a relatively clean corner, and wiped the table off.

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He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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Troy, his shoe still in his hand, just hopped and grinned, trying not to get his white sock dirty.

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The moors that winter were often under a crust of snow not enough to blanket them in white, but a mean, dirty frosting on the hard earth and wilted shrubs.

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It is purposely untidy, as if grooming were a sin, with lots and lots of raw, jagged bunkers filled with distinctly not white, not gleaming, but rather dirty brown sand as if dug by erosion.

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Singer Robin Thicke looked rather aged and slightly dirty old man-ish in his sloppy black, white and silver double-breasted jacket.

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Maybe it is the implausibly youthful face, or the tattered square of dirty, reflective cloth taped to his mudguard or the white, towelling sport socks he has pulled over his cleats in place of overshoes.

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