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Turning yellow.

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  • Tracking downward from Riddick's face and spe-cial goggles, the attention of the flavescent trio even'tually came to rest on the big man's boots.
  • A wonderful impetus was supplied by the creature itself when, flavescent bristles standing noticeably on end, it took a menacing four-tentacled step toward him.
  • Instead, fields of waving wheatlike grass stretched to the distant horizon, interrupted only by isolated thickets of slender, buttery-yellow trees that rose from the...
  • Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of...
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