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Usage examples of crepe.

Sylvie caught the shimmery amber reflection of a slender woman wearing a crepe gown the color of Blue Nile roses, her pale hair caught up with two antique silver combs.

They reminded Ryan of the clusters of crepe paper that had been pinned to so many front doors of Snakefish, to cry out the homes of the recently dead.

In front of her, a wall of tall marsh grasses and a dense tangle of dogwoods and birches and crepe myrtle and spirea separated her from the steep bank that led down to the rising waters of Salt Marsh Creek.

Selena entered the odiferous stillroom at that moment, attired in a most becoming morning dress of amber crepe.

They parted presently and Alethea set about the business of making the most of herself, a not too difficult task, and as though everything was on her side for once, her hair went like a dream, her make-up presented no problems and the grey crepe looked better than ever.

In keeping with the Christmas theme, red and green crepe festooned wagon wheel candelabras and the open balconies of the second floor.

Here also walked the domestics of the re-habilitated noble of Venice--the hatchments that had been doomed to oblivion freshly embroidered upon their sleeves above their tokens of crepe.

The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon or corned beef hash with diced chilies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of key lime pie, two margaritas and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

Not present at that lunch in the past were the white Egyptian cotton shirt from Turnbull and Asser, the dark-blue silk tie, the white crepe de Chine monogrammed handkerchief, or the forty-five-year-old double-breasted pin-stripe suit, teamed with a pair of black brogues that I had bought from Shoe Express in Northampton the year before for nineteen pounds and ninety-nine pence.

She wore a nursy no-nonsense watch and those shoes with two-inch crepe soles designed to offset fallen arches and varicose veins.

Colours of the most harmonious blends appeared and disappeared at intervals in the slowly moving press, touches of lavender-tinted velvets, pale violet crepes and creamcoloured appliqued laces.

Hanshiro had had their baths and now wore the indigo cotton robes and tie-dyed crepe sashes supplied by the Persimmon.

Allen sighed, kicked his worn crepe heels against the autoclave for a moment.

As they made their way toward the business section, Michael pointed out each tree and flowered bush that they passed: crepe myrtle, mimosa, chinaberry, and the fragrant tea olive.

Katrina had her dress, a blue crepe that matched her eyes, yards and yards of skirt and a tucked bodice with shoestring straps, exactly right for the Burgermeester, she had decided, and handed over another of her brother's cheques.