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  • The advanced algebra was still indecipherable—it came from a world beyond my ability to perceive—but the trigonometry had become intelligible, messages written in a language I could understand, from a world of logic and order that only existed in black ink and on white paper.†   (source)
  • I pulled out a stick, took off the white paper and the shiny silver foil under it, and studied the powdery, putty-colored gum.†   (source)
  • The colours never came out clear, the way they would on a piece of white paper: there was a misty look to them, as if they were seen through cheesecloth.†   (source)
  • Silver foil on one side, dull white paper on the other.†   (source)
  • Our tables were covered with white paper instead of tablecloths, so everybody, including the adults, had been given crayons and markers.†   (source)
  • He saw cooks wearing white paper hats, and plates of steaming food on the counter awaiting serving-food in the most succulent colors: deep red sauces, yellow butter creams.†   (source)
  • Miss Lupescu's lists were printed in pale purple ink on white paper, and they smelled odd.†   (source)
  • Inside the typewriter was a piece of white paper.†   (source)
  • She carried the pretzel in a little white paper bag.†   (source)
  • "You watch her tomorrow," he says and hands me a white paper bag.†   (source)
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  • She pulled a piece of white paper out of her back pocket.†   (source)
  • After Mommy got sick and Daddy slipped the white paper mask over Cassie's and his faces.†   (source)
  • She shook the white paper in front of Aunt Xi-wen's nose.†   (source)
  • My brothers and I would peer into the medicinal herb shop, watching old Li dole out onto a stiff sheet of white paper the right amount of insect shells, saffron-colored seeds, and pungent leaves for his ailing customers.†   (source)
  • Uncle Monty had allowed her to tack up large pieces of white paper on each wall, so she could sketch out her ideas, even if they came to her in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • On the walls are clusters of local butterflies, mounted and framed, a map of the region on thin white paper, photographs of the family at the lake over the years.†   (source)
  • When I reached the road, I pulled up some bushes and made a kind of barricade speckled with bits of white paper.†   (source)
  • Once he saw her shaking a walnut tree, once he saw her sitting on the lawn knitting a blue sweater, three or four times he found a bouquet of late flowers on his porch, or a handful of chestnuts in a little sack, or some autumn leaves neatly pinned to a sheet of white paper and thumbtacked to his door.†   (source)
  • It's a small, wood-framed picture of the word "melt," written in black ink on white paper.†   (source)
  • A piece of white paper, coated in clear plastic, reads BUNKER PROTOCOL.†   (source)
  • White paper, smooth in my fingertips.†   (source)
  • There was a piece of white paper folded on my seat.†   (source)
  • There was a letter on faded paper and then a short, quick note on bright white paper.†   (source)
  • But when I opened my eyes, there was just a narrow strip of white paper and a smiling flavorist. millions and millions of fries†   (source)
  • A square of stiff white paper had caught on the spines of a small cactus Annie had set out in May.†   (source)
  • This play began with someone from Sangra crossing out Lomas on a huge, piece of white paper pasted on a wall.†   (source)
  • The man who had made them had now destroyed them, erased them like mistakes in a drawing, like marks on white paper.†   (source)
  • A scrap of white paper inside it said Esthappen and Rabe'.†   (source)
  • The red ink looked like blood against the white paper.†   (source)
  • The windows of the corner shop, so carefully sealed with strips of white paper, were the first to fall out.†   (source)
  • I hold the white paper, but my eyes are so blurred with tears that I can't read it.†   (source)
  • He brought out a stack of fine, white paper and a bottle of ink.†   (source)
  • She held out a little spiral pad of heavy white paper.†   (source)
  • In his open violin case, which Nathaniel rests atop the cart while playing, I see a small, empty white paper bag that bears the name Studio City Music.†   (source)
  • He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons.†   (source)
  • They had a sheet of white paper in front of them and they began to write without thinking about what they wrote.†   (source)
  • I looked with love at the lineup of waiting trays-the white paper napkins, folded in their crisp, isosceles triangles, each under the anchor of its silver fork, the pale domes of soft-boiled eggs in the blue egg cups, the scalloped glass shells of orange marmalade.†   (source)
  • He reached under his seat and pulled out a white paper bag with red chili peppers printed across it.†   (source)
  • He clapped his hands once and a single sheet of clean  white paper fluttered to the floor.†   (source)
  • Inside there would be several twenty-dollar bills folded neatly into a plain white paper.†   (source)
  • WALTER finds what he is looking for—a small piece of white paper—and pushes it in his pocket and puts on his coat and rushes out without ever having looked at her.†   (source)
  • They had just taken off again when a long, low brown cloud appeared on the edge of the horizon, like a smudge of walnut ink on a sheet of white paper.†   (source)
  • This time he had a bunch of roses in a white paper funnel tucked under his arm.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon I found a delicate little white paper box perched on my locker, hand cut into lacy designs, with a card from Little Janet.†   (source)
  • Its edges were bordered with white tape and the cover had a simple white paper label bearing the legends EYES ONLY ¸ and WILLOW.†   (source)
  • Well in that case I told her I could use a handypack of white paper.†   (source)
  • He gave me a sheet of white paper with silvery red writing: To Kit Happy Christmas With Love Grandpa "This is for you," he said.†   (source)
  • The man with the best writing in the village was fetched to write Na-na's name on a large piece of white paper, the same shape as the stone nameplate on the graves.†   (source)
  • "They don't put that kind of news in no white paper.†   (source)
  • In Aunt Emily's package, the papers are piled as neatly as the thin white wafers in Sensei's silver box—symbols of communion, the materials of communication, white paper bread for the mind's meal.†   (source)
  • Thousands of tiny bits of white paper were falling like snowflakes inside the plane, milling around his head so thickly that they clung to his eyelashes when he blinked in astonishment and fluttered against his nostrils and lips each time he inhaled.†   (source)
  • I smiled, opening the white paper bag.†   (source)
  • After a short break, they move to the next step: kids are given a small slip of white paper and told to write one word that tells who they are.†   (source)
  • Svensson limped slowly, so slowly, to his desk, picked up a piece of white paper and scanned it.†   (source)
  • I looked at the white paper in his extended hand.†   (source)
  • Officers were to have a piece of white paper in their hats to distinguish them.†   (source)
  • Inside, folded in a sheet of plain white paper, was the loop of cord he'd taken back from her on that last night they spent together in the creek house.†   (source)
  • It observes Maribel packing the two cinnamon crullers in a white paper bag, folding the top over neatly, and thanking the customer.†   (source)
  • She handed the folded white paper to Joe.†   (source)
  • Sighing, Jeb unrolled the white paper napkin, took out a fork, and placed the fork right into the food on the plate.†   (source)
  • She raised the hamburger sandwich in its white paper napkin.†   (source)
  • Their blossoms, like torn blue and white paper, release perfume into this room.†   (source)
  • Max saw that the print was a mild gray on the clean white paper, as though it had been bleached in the sun.†   (source)
  • There's a knock at the door and to my great surprise it's Sunny, holding a white paper bag of deli sandwiches and a cardboard tray with two cups of tea.†   (source)
  • On Miss Mellon's desk is a stack of plain white paper, and next to it, the sheets of exam questions.†   (source)
  • She handed him a piece of white paper and he unfolded it, but it was hard to read in the dusk.†   (source)
  • Waved that "white paper."†   (source)
  • She had brought into the bathroom a small, oblong package wrapped in white paper and tied with gold tinsel.†   (source)
  • Then he took up the paper bag in his teeth and gently shook it so that more treasures rolled out among them a balled-up piece of heavy white paper.†   (source)
  • Someone else had done it before and Special Registry had glued a bit of white paper over the old name and put in Peter's initials.†   (source)
  • Luke accepted a white paper bag from Gretel, and with a nod, bounded back to the pickup.†   (source)
  • Then I use the white paper from my Cole's Drug Store bag and wrap another one just like it.†   (source)
  • When the white paper was gone, the students used old newspaper instead.†   (source)
  • It was silver foil on one side and white paper on the other.†   (source)
  • On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, "Write about me sometime."†   (source)
  • Next morning there was a new item on the plywood roadrunner, a sheet of white paper.†   (source)
  • White paper—no, it was a bedsheet—covered the whole bird.†   (source)
  • On her brother they were like silver pen on white paper.†   (source)
  • The lacy white paper fell apart in her hands.†   (source)
  • I tore through the stacks of white paper littering his desk and the floor.†   (source)
  • Grace returned with a little parcel wrapped in white paper napkins.†   (source)
  • I'll give you a copy of the white paper we've made up; take it home, study it, sleep on it.†   (source)
  • Stamped in gold on the thin, white paper there stood the sign of the dollar.†   (source)
  • It contained a single sheet of white paper folded in thirds.†   (source)
  • In the polished box lay a rolled white paper tied with a red ribbon.†   (source)
  • He read from a white paper: "Alice, Marguerite, Susan, and John Hathaway.†   (source)
  • Clary was going to say, but she thought of the Queen's wise and cunning eyes, and of Jace throwing that bit of white paper into the water by the beach in Red Hook, and decided not to ask.†   (source)
  • Jimmy's mother persists as a clear image, full colour, with a glossy white paper frame around her like a Polaroid, but he can recall his father only in details: the Adam's apple going up and down when he swallowed, the ears backlit against the kitchen window, the left hand lying on the table, cut off by the shirt cuff.†   (source)
  • Finally she began, flicking her wrist slightly so that her hand waved and dipped like a moth over the gleam of white paper.†   (source)
  • The proprietress of the corner shop not far from our building was sticking strips of white paper over the windows, hoping that would keep them intact in the coming bombardment.†   (source)
  • It is the natural wonder that anything exists in relation to another, an inky oval to a page of white paper, a person to a bamboo stalk, the viewer to the painting.†   (source)
  • Rolls of white paper, dozens of brushes, and many bottles of red and black ink were brought into the classrooms.†   (source)
  • …father kissed a lot And the girl around the corner sent him a Valentine signed with a row of X's and he had to ask his father what the X's meant And his father always tucked him in bed at night And was always there to do it Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines he wrote a poem And he called it 'Autumn" because that was the name of the season And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly And his mother never hung it on the…†   (source)
  • Then the Reverend hands me a box, wrapped in white paper, tied with light blue ribbon, same colors as the book.†   (source)
  • White paper danced in the air.†   (source)
  • The threat was in the parting line of Aro's congratulatory note, written in black ink on a square of heavy, plain white paper in Aro's own hand: I so look forward to seeing the new Mrs. Cullen in person.†   (source)
  • He stared out into the bar, looking—he wasn't even quite sure why—for Isabelle, but he could see only a sea of white faces turned toward him, and he remembered his first night in the Dumont Hotel and the faces of the vampires turned toward him, like white paper flowers unfolding against a dark emptiness.†   (source)
  • But the gunslinger knew the forms of speaking quite well and did not think the boy would h The gunslinger opened his tobacco poke and pawed through it, pushing the dry strands of leaf aside until he came to a minuscule object wrapped in a fragment of white paper.†   (source)
  • I have torn out and discarded many of your pages, Dear Diary, small knots of white paper in the trash as I attempt to come to terms with my position.†   (source)
  • But he found himself stricken at odd moments: alone in his new office; or developing photos, watching images emerge, mysteriously, on the sheets of blank white paper; or lying here on this warm rock while Norah, hurt and angry, walked away.†   (source)
  • Yossarian continued staring in tormented fascination at Aarfy's spherical countenance beaming at him so serenely and vacantly through the drifting whorls of white paper bits and concluded that he was a raving lunatic just as eight bursts of flak broke open successively at eye level off to the right, then eight more, and then eight more, the last group pulled over toward the left so that they were almost directly in front.†   (source)
  • That is how I walked then from Dora and her tree and Nadine and the pack of white paper I threw at her feet.†   (source)
  • My brothers and I watched as a group of counterrevolutionaries were paraded through our village, with heavy blackboards around their necks and tall, pointed white paper hats on their heads.†   (source)
  • Staring at the folded white paper that she had taken from her hip pocket, turning it over and over in her hands, Barbara said, "You have to understand about Minh.†   (source)
  • Adam started by asking me to read aloud white paper, for his benefit and for Comrade Wyoming— "But first, Comrade Manuel, if you have the recordings you made Earthside, could you transmit them by phone at high speed to my office?†   (source)
  • That bold, slanting hand, stabbing the white paper, the symbol of herself, so certain, so assured.†   (source)
  • In the tall moonlight his eyes look like spots of white paper pasted on a high small football.†   (source)
  • He showed me the silhouettes before he pasted them on white paper and handed them to the girls.†   (source)
  • He drew out a small slip of white paper, the theatre-pass, crumpled it in grinding fingers to a crackling wad and threw it down on the table.†   (source)
  • A huge truck swept past, lifting scraps of white paper into the sunshine" the bits settled down slowly.†   (source)
  • There's just white paper all around.†   (source)
  • Her face was like a heart cut from white paper, framed against black hair, and her eyes were wide, like those of a frightened child lost in the dark.†   (source)
  • I picked up a pencil and held it over a sheet of white paper, but my feelings stood in the way of my words.†   (source)
  • She pressed her fingertips to the damp headline, examined her inked fingertips, then made fingerprints on a sheet of white paper.†   (source)
  • A broad river of white paper rushed constantly up from the cylinder and leaped into a mangling chaos of machinery whence it emerged a second later, cut, printed, folded and stacked, sliding along a board with a hundred others in a fattening sheaf.†   (source)
  • The state from which he was escaping was peppered with villages - in the hot marshy land people bred as readily as mosquitoes, but in the next state- in the north-west corner - there was hardly anything but blank white paper.†   (source)
  • She would tear off sheet after sheet of that smooth white paper, using it extravagantly, because of the long strokes she made when she wrote, and at the end of each of her personal letters she put her signature, 'Rebecca', that tall sloping R dwarfing its fellows.†   (source)
  • Its tender had been lined with fresh white paper, and was full of sweets.†   (source)
  • She wanted to learn Italian; she bought dictionaries, a grammar, and a supply of white paper.†   (source)
  • He fetched from an old secretary a sheet of white paper and pen and ink.†   (source)
  • Along the lower edge of each strip was pasted a slip of white paper.†   (source)
  • Frau Chauchat had donned a carnival hat as well—not one she had bought, but the kind children make, a simple tricorn of folded white paper set rakishly to one side—and it looked quite marvelous on her.†   (source)
  • Oil white paper, fill up the interstices between the particles with oil so that there is no longer refraction or reflection except at the surfaces, and it becomes as transparent as glass.†   (source)
  • I turned and saw that Flora, whom, ten minutes before, I had established in the schoolroom with a sheet of white paper, a pencil, and a copy of nice "round o's," now presented herself to view at the open door.†   (source)
  • Here he threw a packet of bank-notes tied up in white paper, on the table before her, not daring to say all he wished to say.†   (source)
  • When the chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband—oh, Lucy, it is the first time I have written the words 'my husband'—left me alone with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring.†   (source)
  • And then you make a cone of clean white paper with a little hole at the pointed end, and put the pink egg-sugar in at the big end.†   (source)
  • And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here."†   (source)
  • They were papering the walls with a new white paper covered with lilac flowers, instead of the old, dirty, yellow one.†   (source)
  • But then it is open to some one else to follow great authorities, and call the mind a sheet of white paper or a mirror, in which case one's knowledge of the digestive process becomes quite irrelevant.†   (source)
  • The writing had originally been traced on white paper, but the letter had now assumed a pale red tinge from the accident of its situation; and the black strokes of writing thereon looked like the twigs of a winter hedge against a vermilion sunset.†   (source)
  • At his left hip he wore a short sword; in his hand, however, he carried a truncheon, which looked like a roll of white paper.†   (source)
  • 'So young a child,' said the gentleman sitting opposite to her (he was dressed in white paper), 'ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!'†   (source)
  • Catherine employed herself in wrapping a handsome book neatly in white paper, and having tied it with a bit of ribbon, and addressed it to 'Mr.†   (source)
  • For instance, there was a glass pickle-jar, filled with fragments of Gibraltar rock; not, indeed, splinters of the veritable stone foundation of the famous fortress, but bits of delectable candy, neatly done up in white paper.†   (source)
  • On the walls, covered with white paper, which was torn in many places, there hung two large portraits—one of some prince who had been governor of the district thirty years before, and the other of some bishop, also long since dead.†   (source)
  • No one, looking at his white hands, with their swollen veins and long fingers, so softly stroking the edges of the white paper that lay before him, and at the air of weariness with which his head drooped on one side, would have suspected that in a few minutes a torrent of words would flow from his lips that would arouse a fearful storm, set the members shouting and attacking one another, and force the president to call for order.†   (source)
  • These souvenirs, half effaced and almost obliterated by excess of suffering, were revived by the sombre figure which stood before her, as the approach of fire causes letters traced upon white paper with invisible ink, to start out perfectly fresh.†   (source)
  • At last the door in the wall opened and Mrs. Bread stood there, with one hand on the latch and the other holding out a scrap of white paper, folded small.†   (source)
  • But the gentleman dressed in white paper leaned forwards and whispered in her ear, 'Never mind what they all say, my dear, but take a return-ticket every time the train stops.'†   (source)
  • Putting the iron which was a little the smaller on the piece of wood, he fastened them very firmly, crossing and re-crossing the thread round them; then wrapped them carefully and daintily in clean white paper and tied up the parcel so that it would be very difficult to untie it.†   (source)
  • Under this row of faint grease prints he would write a record on the strip of white paper—thus: JOHN SMITH, right hand— and add the day of the month and the year, then take Smith's left hand on another glass strip, and add name and date and the words "left hand."†   (source)
  • She and Rodolphe had agreed that in the event of anything extraordinary occurring, she should fasten a small piece of white paper to the blind, so that if by chance he happened to be in Yonville, he could hurry to the lane behind the house.†   (source)
  • Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book.†   (source)
  • But again I tell thee, feel and hunt, for I am certain thou art cleaner than a sheet of smooth white paper.†   (source)
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  • He pulls a white paper package from his jacket pocket and holds it out to me.   (source)
    white paper = describing paper as white
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