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  • A tall woman in her mid-twenties with arched eyebrows and auburn hair, she was indisputably striking.†   (source)
  • He sees her deep red lipstick and her plump, soft cheeks and the wave of her auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Corinne had soft white skin and a tumbleweed of auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Hilly gives him an auburn-lipsticked smile.†   (source)
  • Queen Georgina raised an auburn eyebrow.†   (source)
  • Her thin lips are painted an angry stroke of red, and in the night her auburn hair looks dark brown—almost black.†   (source)
  • Bees are silver; pigeons are ginger and auburn and occasionally golden.†   (source)
  • His auburn hair is lank and unkempt, and his eyes are bloodshot.†   (source)
  • Her long auburn hair was dull and tangled.†   (source)
  • Stuart Thistleback had auburn hair and played the stand-up bass, and we were totally in love, but he lived in Chattanooga and we didn't have our driver's licenses yet.†   (source)
  • Even her mom's hair, long and wavy and auburn, was a more legitimate version of Eleanor's bright red curls.†   (source)
  • She inclined her head, auburn curls cascading over her bosom, and extended her fingers toward her second thaumaturge, the man in the red coat.†   (source)
  • Her real hair turns out to be a nice auburn.†   (source)
  • Dart saw that the morning mist had condensed on Trixie's auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Holly Short had nut-brown skin, cropped auburn hair and hazel eyes.†   (source)
  • She was tall and auburn-haired, dressed in clinging white satin, and she was dancing close to him, her breasts pressed softly and sweetly against his chest.†   (source)
  • As I held the cinnamon-colored bundle with auburn hair and doelike eyes in my arms, I swore she would never have to endure the racial prejudices I endured.†   (source)
  • Katrina stepped out from behind Horst and tossed back her auburn hair like a spray of molten copper.†   (source)
  • I squatted low with my chin on my knees and watched my bare feet change slowly from dark auburn, to speckled, to white as the ants dispersed and forayed out into the bottom of the canoe.†   (source)
  • Ah, yes, long auburn hair, pleated skirt…†   (source)
  • The long mane of auburn hair had not changed.†   (source)
  • I vividly remembered the flat black color of his eyes the last time he'd glared at me — the color was striking against the background of his pale skin and his auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Beneath the green shock of her hair, she had a ginger complexion—like cream painted over copper, the auburn sheen peeking through in the freckles of her face and arms.†   (source)
  • Her long, curly auburn hair looks lank and greasy, like she's forgotten to wash it these past few weeks.†   (source)
  • She stood in the middle of the room in a neon green minidress, leather valise at her feet, with her auburn hair and long limbs, grinning down at me, a shine on her face, and talking, the seams of her voice bursting with aplomb and cheer.†   (source)
  • Her eyes are a bright blue, her hair auburn, and her face would be rather handsome were it not for the long curved chin, which gives, as it always does to most persons who have this facial defect, a cunning, cruel expression.†   (source)
  • Autumn came, the maple leaves curled into fists and dropped away, and the rain ground them into an auburn paste.†   (source)
  • So maybe I had the teeniest, tiniest, most infinitesimal amount of auburn in my hair.†   (source)
  • It was a male squirrel with auburn fur.†   (source)
  • I Saw Them before they saw me' the whole fam-damily turned out to greet me: Jake, sweaty and animated, auburn hair (And where did that come from, Mother?†   (source)
  • An auburn-haired, green-eyed minx, she dated a guy named Steve who made deliveries for the home improvement store on the other side of town.†   (source)
  • She had wavy auburn hair, which was cut above the shoulders, and greenish eyes.†   (source)
  • Light fell through the long windows and splashed in motes and patterns on the plank floor; it caught the auburn highlights in Phoebe's thin braids as she stood before a big wooden bin, scooping lentils, letting them cascade into jars.†   (source)
  • Her auburn hair was pulled back into a thick braid.†   (source)
  • His hair was dark like his half sister's, but her hair reflected the light in flashes of gold and auburn; his was black like charcoal.†   (source)
  • Five three or so, auburn hair, gray eyes, adequate figure, a dazzling smile, and fashionably dressed.†   (source)
  • She's ravishing, with her auburn hair loose and wild, a red gown cut daringly low on her bosom.†   (source)
  • Deliriously, I think the color brings out the auburn highlights in his blond hair.†   (source)
  • 'Come with me,' said the auburn-haired vampire.†   (source)
  • He likes to keep photographs, a few locks of auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Her color was more auburn, deep and red mixed with browns that made her green eyes seem almost luminous.†   (source)
  • Beside him sat his strikingly attractive wife, the reddish glow of her auburn hair heightened by the dashboard lights.†   (source)
  • Marsha's alluring eyes and shiny auburn hair almost made me faint.†   (source)
  • All he really registered was the auburn hair and the troubled green eyes.†   (source)
  • He saw the auburn-haired woman and the child at the end of the third aisle.†   (source)
  • A tall man with auburn hair, neither young nor old—an ageless face, inhuman and cold.†   (source)
  • With a wave, Julie jogged down a path toward the woods, her shiny auburn hair swishing back and forth.†   (source)
  • Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks.†   (source)
  • Her outfit and lipstick are a striking red, accenting her full lips and auburn bouffant hairdo.†   (source)
  • Her mother's real name was Naomi, but because of her auburn hair, which was long and thick, everyone called her Rusty.†   (source)
  • Chisel-sharp nose, auburn hair, green eyes, and breasts as big as this.†   (source)
  • April nodded, an action that set off a cascade of auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Catti-brie shook her head, the auburn locks bouncing across her shoulders.†   (source)
  • Her wavy auburn hair shimmered in the candlelight.†   (source)
  • A thick bandage was wrapped around Amanda's head, her auburn hair cut short.†   (source)
  • Dark auburn locks cascaded down her shoulders and framed her delicate face.†   (source)
  • Chiara was staring down at him, her long curly hair, with its auburn and chestnut highlights, tumbling over one shoulder, her angular nose and jaw in semiprofile.†   (source)
  • Eyebrows plucked and repainted, bright carmine lipstick, streaks of auburn deftly folded into black hair.†   (source)
  • She had red-auburn hair that she wore piled high on her head, and her flesh was white and soft.†   (source)
  • The hair that had been pulled out of its confines was flirtatious and went into two auburn-and-gray pomegranates along her cheeks.†   (source)
  • The auburn-haired girl turned toward me.   (source)
    auburn = colored a moderate reddish-brown
  • I hesitated, my hand raised to brush some auburn waves from my face.   (source)
    auburn = reddish-brown
  • I stared into the big mirror and tried to flatten the mess of auburn waves while Wesley put his clothes on behind me.   (source)
  • I unbuttoned his shirt as he pulled the alligator clip from my hair and let the auburn waves fall around us.   (source)
  • Uncontrollable wavy auburn hair.   (source)
  • The completed mechanisms were inspected by eighteen identical curly auburn girls in Gamma green, packed in crates by thirty-four short-legged, left-handed male Delta-Minuses, and loaded into the waiting trucks and lorries by sixty-three blue-eyed, flaxen and freckled Epsilon Semi-Morons.   (source)
    auburn = (of hair) reddish-brown
  • This younger Albus Dumbledore's long hair and beard were auburn.†   (source)
  • Her thick auburn hair had been brushed until it shone.†   (source)
  • She's torn the auburn cuff clear off Hilly's arm.†   (source)
  • The man standing behind her is stout and florid, with shaggy auburn hair.†   (source)
  • "You are in no condition to be hurling yourself off cliffs," the auburn-haired girl said.†   (source)
  • She had auburn hair gathered back in a ponytail and strange eyes, silvery yellow like the moon.†   (source)
  • Sansa had gotten their mother's fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys.†   (source)
  • His fingers brushed against her cheek as he stroked one auburn lock.†   (source)
  • Lysa gave an impatient shake of her waist-long auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Ser Edmure Tully was a stocky young man with a shaggy head of auburn hair and a fiery beard.†   (source)
  • She had brushed out her long auburn hair until it shone, and picked her nicest blue silks.†   (source)
  • Her long auburn hair, woven into an elaborate braid, fell across her left shoulder.†   (source)
  • Her long auburn hair tumbled unbound across bare white shoulders and down her back.†   (source)
  • He ran his fingers through his shaggy mane of auburn hair, looking unhappy.†   (source)
  • Her hair was a rich autumn auburn, her eyes a deep Tully blue.†   (source)
  • Short auburn hair peeked out from the rim of a tall helmet.†   (source)
  • The girl with the auburn hair approached the queen and bowed.†   (source)
  • Her son's beard had grown in redder than his auburn hair.†   (source)
  • The long, flowing hair was only a wig; her true hair—a muted auburn—she wears in a simple braid.†   (source)
  • Where was the slender, compact Panov and the tall, striking, auburn-haired Marie?†   (source)
  • Brushing a strand of auburn hair from her eyes, she walked calmly forward.†   (source)
  • On the right was a beautiful woman with curly auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Angela appeared at the top of a sand dune, her thick auburn hair blowing behind her.†   (source)
  • The younger wanted to know if the girl had that auburn hair between her legs as well.†   (source)
  • The newcomer wore a black pantsuit, her long auburn hair pulled back in a ponytail.†   (source)
  • Jason turned again and looked at the auburn-haired woman.†   (source)
  • The ends of her auburn bangs touched her eyelashes as she stared at me, unblinking.†   (source)
  • April is all green eyes and auburn hair and big, mocking smiles.†   (source)
  • When she pulled it free, her long auburn hair cascaded down her back and across her shoulders.†   (source)
  • Her long auburn hair fell over his face, her body pressed against his, her lips next to his lips.†   (source)
  • A highborn maid of three-andten, with a fair face and auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Sansa flailed, found Lysa's thick auburn braid, and clutched it tight.†   (source)
  • "Before then," said the auburn-haired woman, laughing.†   (source)
  • By the time Ser Desmond came for her, she had bathed and dressed and combed out her auburn hair.†   (source)
  • A girl of three-and-ten with auburn hair, fair to look upon.†   (source)
  • And at Winterfell, Sansa was a little girl with auburn hair.†   (source)
  • He had shaved his beard away, but his auburn hair fell uncut to his shoulders.†   (source)
  • She is a highborn maid and beautiful, with blue eyes and auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Her auburn hair had been done up in a thick braid, and fell across one shoulder.†   (source)
  • A young maid, three-and-ten and fair of face, with blue eyes and auburn hair.†   (source)
  • She's highborn, only threeand-ten, a pretty maid with blue eyes and auburn hair.†   (source)
  • 46… with blue eyes and auburn hair, aye.†   (source)
  • She had been a pretty girl, in truth; dimpled and delicate, with long auburn hair.†   (source)
  • A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with blue eyes and auburn hair "My lady?" she said.†   (source)
  • A highborn girl of three-and-ten, with auburn hair.†   (source)
  • A highborn maid and very beautiful, with blue eyes and auburn hair.†   (source)
  • "Such as a maid of three-and-ten, with auburn hair?" said Ser Illifer the Penniless.†   (source)
  • A highborn maid with blue eyes and auburn hair?†   (source)
  • Kimberly Lou had bright green eyes and rich auburn hair and smooth milky skin—a lovely and cultured woman, Officer Delinko thought.†   (source)
  • When she removed it to join in the raceme quadrille, the torchlight caught the deep auburn tints of her hair.†   (source)
  • His mother was still beautiful, though her face was a bit wrinkled and cracked with powder, and her auburn hair had a few silver streaks.†   (source)
  • My mother was Aunt Pauline's younger sister, and prettier than Aunt Pauline, who had a complexion like sandpaper and was all bone, with knuckles on her as big as chickens' knees; but my mother had long auburn hair, it was her I got it from, and round blue eyes like a doll, and before her marriage she had lived with Aunt Pauline and Uncle Roy and helped them with the shop.†   (source)
  • A slender, pretty, auburn-haired girl with a very freckled face, in glasses and a gray dress, carrying a knapsack over one shoulder.†   (source)
  • His own hair was dark—"cured," he said, through years of toil—but when he was young it was more like auburn.†   (source)
  • …of my own life, that I was too ignorant to know how to act and that to hang me would be judicial murder, that I am fond of animals, that I am very handsome with a brilliant complexion, that I have blue eyes, that I have green eyes, that I have auburn and also brown hair, that I am tall and also not above the average height, that I am well and decently dressed, that I robbed a dead woman to appear so, that I am brisk and smart about my work, that I am of a sullen disposition with a…†   (source)
  • The cornered woman; the penitential dress falling straight down, concealing feet that were surely bare; the straw mattress on the floor; the timorous hunch of the shoulders; the arms hugged close to the thin body, the long wisps of auburn hair escaping from what appeared at first glance to be a chaplet of white flowers — and especially the eyes, enormous in the pale face and dilated with fear, or with mute pleading — all was as it should be.†   (source)
  • Most of the Hunters scattered as tiny holes appeared in the snow at their feet, but the girl with auburn hair just looked up calmly at the helicopter.†   (source)
  • Bianca di Angelo was seated next to the auburn-haired girl, who I still had trouble thinking of as Artemis.†   (source)
  • The goddess slid down from her throne and turned to human size, a young auburn-haired girl, perfectly at ease in the midst of the giant Olympians She walked toward us, her silver robes shimmering.†   (source)
  • A few yards ahead of us, gray clouds swirled in a heavy vortex, making a funnel cloud that almost touched the mountaintop, but instead rested on the shoulders, of a twelve-year-old girl with auburn hair and a tattered silvery dress: Artemis, her legs bound to the rock with celestial bronze chains.†   (source)
  • Catelyn watched a breeze stir his auburn hair, so like her own, and wondered when her son had grown so big.†   (source)
  • Sansa was dressed beautifully that day, in a green gown that brought out the auburn of her hair, and she knew they were looking at her and smiling.†   (source)
  • His auburn hair had grown shaggy and unkempt, and a reddish stubble covered his jaw, making him look older than his fifteen years.†   (source)
  • He remembered Robb as he had last seen him, standing in the yard with snow melting in his auburn hair.†   (source)
  • And there in their midst was Sansa, dressed in sky-blue silk, with her long auburn hair washed and curled and silver bracelets on her wrists.†   (source)
  • Catelyn had always thought Robb looked like her; like Bran and Rickon and Sansa, he had the Tully coloring, the auburn hair, the blue eyes.†   (source)
  • All that remained of her sister's beauty was the great fall of thick auburn hair that cascaded to her waist.†   (source)
  • Her maids sluiced the blood off her face, scrubbed the dirt from her back, washed her hair and brushed it out until it sprang back in thick auburn curls.†   (source)
  • His features were lined and weathered, and time had stolen the auburn from his hair and left him only grey, but the smile was the same, and the bushy eyebrows fat as caterpillars, and the laughter in his deep blue eyes.†   (source)
  • Her auburn hair was waist length.†   (source)
  • No one responded until a youngish man with auburn muttonchops laughed and poked at the stone with a spike-topped ax.†   (source)
  • What sort of hair is auburn?†   (source)
  • Her long auburn hair swirled about her face as she walked across theclearing, and the press of the wind exposed the bulge of her growing belly through the layers of her dress.†   (source)
  • Between the latticework of branches below, Eragon caught brief glimpses of the flowing shapes of buildings made of living wood, colorful beds of blooming flowers, rippling streams, the auburn glow of a flameless lantern, and, once or twice, the pale flash of an elf's upturned face.†   (source)
  • She saw Ned Stark, and beside him little Sansa with her auburn hair and a shaggy grey dog that might have been her wolf.†   (source)
  • The strong voice came from Birgit, an auburn-haired woman who clasped Nolfavrell against her bosom, ignoring the blood smeared across his face.†   (source)
  • Straight auburn hair.†   (source)
  • The chestnut-eyed actress with the long auburn hair knows that this moment will put her name in papers around the world, so there is more than a touch of self-indulgence in her actions.†   (source)
  • Hair: brown, blond, auburn.†   (source)
  • Passing a small neighborhood shopping center, from across three lanes of traffic, Joe saw a woman with long auburn hair stepping out of a Ford Explorer.†   (source)
  • Her bobbed auburn hair, tied in a stubby ponytail, was set aflame by the sun that streamed in behind her and made a shadow of her on the matching sofa across the living room.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the room stood a young woman in a black pantsuit, with long auburn hair and a security guard's earpiece.†   (source)
  • Her hair was deep red—not that horrid carrot-top orange-red or the washed-out blond-red, but a dark, glossy auburn that fell in heavy waves well past her shoulders.†   (source)
  • Rickon was to his right, his mop of shaggy auburn hair grown so long that it brushed his ermine mantle.†   (source)
  • Miss Trimble is a compelling creature with thick waves of auburn hair that cascade down the back of her purple cloak.†   (source)
  • The woman had thick long auburn hair, falling in waves to her waist, and her eyes, when she raised them, were a peculiar flat orange color, like a dying flame.†   (source)
  • "Georgetown University, please," she said, a pretty young woman with auburn hair and an armload of books.†   (source)
  • Marie literally crawled out of bed, headed for the bathroom, and four minutes later, ablutions completed, her auburn hair brushed and, wearing a bathrobe, walked out through the shuttered door to the patio overlooking the pool.†   (source)
  • The masterful auburn-haired vampire looked on, his hands clasped in front of him; and when Claudia rose now, the boy shuddered.†   (source)
  • So fast was Saphira that, when dusk arrived, they had already left Du Weldenvarden behind and entered the auburn fields that separated the great forest from the Hadarac Desert.†   (source)
  • It only lasted until they saw the girl approaching, her arm in a bloody sling and her face and auburn hair caked with layers of dust.†   (source)
  • …her to every meeting; and then to the chief of Dur grimst Ledwonnu, Manndrath, who sat in profile to Eragon, displaying his long, drooping nose to good effect; to Thordris, grimstborith of Durgrimst Nagra, of whom he could see little but her wavy auburn hair, which fell past her shoulders and lay coiled on the floor in a braid twice as long as she was tall; to the back of Orik's head as he slouched to one side in his chair; to Freowin, grimstborith of Durgrimst Gedthrall, an immensely…†   (source)
  • She was tall, with long waves of dark auburn hair and brilliant, almond-shaped eyes an unusual shade of moss green.†   (source)
  • Before their eyes, the smee swelled into a squat hag with greasy gray skin, a tuft of auburn frizz, and a fleecy orange robe.†   (source)
  • They were noteworthy for their silence—there was no music during this period—and for the fact that, as he was repairing the angel's auburn hair, a large bomb exploded in Paris.†   (source)
  • Her long auburn hair had been pulled back from her face, and she floated back and forth across the stage as if she were riding on her very own cloud.†   (source)
  • But then the room began to waver, and the auburn-haired vampire put his hands on my shoulders and guided me down into a leather chair.†   (source)
  • She was younger than he'd imagined—midthirties, with porcelain-white skin and long auburn hair that fell in a braid to her waist.†   (source)
  • Undeniably, she was beautiful, with thick waves of rich, auburn hair rolling down over her shoulders and the darkest blue, penetrating eyes that would make any suitor blush under their knowing scrutiny.†   (source)
  • She was sitting there, auburn hair parted down the middle and hanging to her shoulders as she held a drumstick in one hand and a cigarette in the other, a glass of my father's scotch in front of her.†   (source)
  • She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft …. the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper.†   (source)
  • But as he continued to stare, he began to pick out paths hidden among the brush and trees; soft warm light where normally there would be auburn shadows; an odd pattern in the shapes of the twigs and branches and flowers, so subtle that it nearly escaped detection-clues that what he saw was not entirely natural.†   (source)
  • Her face — drawn, pale and tired — was framed by a shell of hair no longer a striking auburn but mouse-grey with subtle tinges of white.†   (source)
  • She looked mysterious, and powerful with her auburn hair flying around her and the snow covering the long black dress she was wearing.†   (source)
  • With her quiet beauty and warm auburn hair, I supposed that the best way I could think to describe Sofia was: a ray of light.†   (source)
  • The auburn-haired woman now beside him at the counter spoke English But then she had said she was "waiting for word from Ottawa."†   (source)
  • 'What is it, lady?' asked the guard, his gaze avoiding Marie's exposed flesh, instead focused on her face and her long auburn hair.†   (source)
  • Her warm auburn hair and her radiant smile had reminded me of sunshine more than the Sun Room ever could.†   (source)
  • Sansa Stark rode a chesnut mare at his side, looking neither right nor left, her thick auburn hair flowing to her shoulders beneath a net of moonstones.†   (source)
  • And he turned and gazed at me now, much in the manner of the auburn-haired vampire, who had lit the candle and whispered to him, 'Go.'†   (source)
  • Julie was dressed for travel, wearing a gray overcoat and a white cap that showed her auburn hair to great advantage.†   (source)
  • " It was when I was getting into the car that I thought I saw Angela, a flash of auburn hair and a black silky dress, a man I did not recognize, a car I'd never seen.†   (source)
  • His face was as tranquil as always, his smooth, white forehead beneath the shock of his auburn hair without a trace of care, his large eyes reflecting on me, his lips still.†   (source)
  • She handed Webb a towel as both men sat down facing each other in front of an unlit fireplace, then moved behind her husband and began blotting his neck and shoulders with the second towel, the light of a table lamp heightening the reddish tint of her auburn hair, her lovely features in shadows, her eyes on the man from the State Department.†   (source)
  • As they waited in Riverrun's Great Hall for the prisoner to be brought before them, she saw Robb push back the crown so it rested upon the thick auburn mop of his hair; moments later, he moved it forward again; later he gave it a quarter turn, as if that might make it sit more easily on his brow.†   (source)
  • I asked, conjuring my own picture, a seventeen-year-old Angela, her auburn hair swinging shoulder length; I imagined white socks and saddle shoes as she raced out onto an empty football field to meet him, tall and thin with pale green eyes, and all the while she was trying to decide how she was going to break the news to him, this accident that had happened, this accident of a child who she would have to get rid of in some way or another if he didn't marry her.†   (source)
  • Lying on the cushioned wooden bench, she'd been a feast to behold, with her dress hiking up those long, milky white legs of hers, her dark auburn hair flowing down the edge of the bench, and her pink lips slightly parting as she breathed.†   (source)
  • Several moments later Marie's long auburn hair was pulled severely back, away from her face and neck, fastened with the aid of a mirror and hairpins from her purse into a tight chignon.†   (source)
  • Two men stood on either side of an auburn-haired woman; they interrupted their conversation, nodded at the newcomer-noting the suitcase and moving to the side-then resumed talking as the doors closed.†   (source)
  • But there he was, soundless, beyond the curtained entrance of the box, that vampire with the auburn hair, that detached one; standing on the carpeted stairway looking at us.†   (source)
  • Thick auburn tresses fell down past her waist, but beneath the costly velvet gown and jeweled bodice her body sagged and bulged.†   (source)
  • And this vampire opened his arms, his back to the flickering footlights, his auburn hair seeming to tremble as the gold of her hair fell around his black coat.†   (source)
  • Cersei's own bedmaid trimmed her nails and brushed and curled her auburn hair so it fell down her back in soft ringlets.†   (source)
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