Second: not all the brown-skinned were made equal. From Wordnik.com. [Brown Against Brown] Reference
I met one in New York City, and he was brown-skinned. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976. Interview G-0016. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I was a typical brown-skinned Asian kid with black hair. From Wordnik.com. [Gil Laroya: The Line Between Bigotry and Racism] Reference
She was a small, brown-skinned woman with a guarded look. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
We may be brown-skinned lassies, boys, but what do we care. From Wordnik.com. [Ragged But Right] Reference
Would you have been considered in those days a brown-skinned woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Viola Turner, April 15, 1979. Interview C-0015. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He squatted next to a smiling, brown-skinned man about his own age. From Wordnik.com. [The Naked Mountain] Reference
Then the castaways could see it contained four brown-skinned natives. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
Well, you take it 'cross the water, where a brown-skinned man can't go. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Lemon Jefferson Lyrics] Reference
A dirty, thin, brown-skinned, weak-looking boy was lying in the porch. From Wordnik.com. [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference
First: the most backbreaking and bloody work fell to the brown-skinned. From Wordnik.com. [Brown Against Brown] Reference
It seemed to grow larger as it lay for a moment on his big brown-skinned hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
Aaron had as much to learn from his brown-skinned neighbors as he had to teach them. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Man's Lantern] Reference
A brown-skinned man was refilling his sports car as his wife and child waited inside. From Wordnik.com. [Some Kind of Change] Reference
And, amazingly, I live with those brown-skinned people that frighten Lou Dobbs so much. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2008] Reference
The thought of this brown-skinned girl of the rapt and steadfast gaze remained with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
She is a dark brown-skinned woman of medium height and always wears a dirty towel on her head. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Women shaded their eyes, their arms curved protectively around slender brown-skinned children. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
His brow furrowed into a frown, but neither the blond woman nor the brown-skinned man noticed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's arresting legal residents for no other reason than being brown-skinned. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2008] Reference
His wife, Mary Ellen, is a brown-skinned, country-looking young woman, about twenty years of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
There was a school picture from the Vanutu school, beautiful brown-skinned kids with smiling faces. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
For brown-skinned Arizonans, today is a day to worry about a law that officially marginalizes them. From Wordnik.com. [Mario Solis-Marich: Jan Brewer's Big Weekend] Reference
Some recalled the chestnut: brown-skinned Ents with large splayfingered hands, and short thick legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Iraq can be free; that if you're Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can't be self-governing and free. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War (4/13/04)] Reference
And her daughter had gone to school up in Maryland and met a fellow, a brown-skinned guy, down there; she was very fair. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976. Interview G-0016. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Their bliss was broken by a crowd of brown-skinned people, moving toward the cottage, seemingly acting under some emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
She was leaner than when she had left, and brown-skinned, and she wore a short leather tunic that revealed her tanned calves. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
A brown-skinned waiter, with nothing remarkable about him save a magnificent moustache, shambled forward to enquire his pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The White Cottage Mystery]
She was so gipsy-like to look at: brown-skinned, large dark eyes, exceeding bright, with a sort of sparkling, wild look about her. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
But you do see the transition from him being a brown-skinned young man to a very, very fair, alabaster-skinned white guy later on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2009] Reference
Soon a large body of brown-skinned, fuzzy-headed natives, armed with spears, clubs, and bows and arrows, came slowly towards the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
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