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noun Angling.

an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.

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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.
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The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
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The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
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Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.
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The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
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"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
It separates into three layers upon standing—a brown deposit, a clear fluid, and a frothy layer.
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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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Mr. Brown seizes the proffered member, and gives it as hearty a pressure as the publicity of the occasion will permit.
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