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A basic fluorescent dye used as a metachromatic stain for nucleic acids and in screening cervical smears for abnormal cells.

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Suddenly, light flooded the room, and I found myself lying on a filthy orange sofa across the room from where my rape occurred.
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I learn by the third day to tell the nurse privately to make mine mostly orange juice.
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A storage building became a ghostly concrete frame lit bright orange.
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Some one had gathered orange and lemon branches, and with these fashioned graceful festoons between.
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The long line of little gray, weather-beaten houses nestled peacefully among the orange trees.
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An illumination broke over his whole face when he saw her and joined her under the orange tree.
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Thus shall we see the destinies of this country guided under the orange and red flag.
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The Russians, on the contrary, prefer orange-yellow transparent specimens.
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