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Having white ribs.

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  • And the white-ribbed waves on the granite shore moan and sob in their pain.
  • He wears a spotless white shirt, the old-fashioned, collarless kind, open at the neck and showing a white-ribbed undershirt.
  • Behind her, in the far distance, lay the white-ribbed downs, and, along their ridge, there stretched against the sky a thin, shadowy, broken line.
  • So Mr. Cetra designed the series of white-ribbed boxes, which hovered over the Wendy's building until the property was finally turned into part of One Madison Park's base.
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