The evidence arrived in a Venetian water-stained box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold of Kings] Reference

That was why Skip had to have that water-stained drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lampshade] Reference

The high ceilings are covered with water-stained tiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheer!] Reference

Owen Jennison sat grinning in a water-stained silk dressing gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Menage] Reference

“The print is dim, and the pages are water-stained,” Ben said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Sealed Room] Reference

The plank walls of the house were water-stained, and the roof sagged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colors of Chaos]

The jaundice-yellow wallpaper was ancient, water-stained, and peeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

She gazed upward as if reading file cards on the water-stained ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Went Underground]

Yeah, and then you look up at the ceiling, at the water-stained ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning] Reference

Naugahyde benches, an acoustical drop ceiling, water-stained in the corners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Girl Blue]

The walls of the vestibule were water-stained and flaking away in big chunks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask the Cards a Question]

I wondered as I glanced away from the group's pain to the water-stained ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quickie]

I pictured their apartment: the water-stained wallpaper, the puke-colored couch.    From Wordnik.com.  [mostly good girls] Reference

Michael turned to see Busch holding up the leather tube, its outer skin water-stained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference

There was nothing behind me but the boards of the wall, badly caulked and water-stained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphans of Chaos] Reference

 It seemed to house a variety of greeting cards, all of which were water-stained and smudged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Lives on Barriedale Road?] Reference

Matteo looked idly about the room, which had water-stained walls and lamps too dim to read by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The building, which is still officially closed to the public, is dirty and dusty and water-stained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reporter's Notebook: Diplomatic Reception In Iraq] Reference

Staring up at the shadows on the water-stained ceiling, Lindsay Green could attest to that simple truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference

The leather binding is flaking and discoloured, the pages are ragged, spotted, and slightly water-stained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

He laid his hands on the lapels of his spotless gray suit as he stared up at the water-stained drop ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quickie]

Hands sweating on the flare controls, he dived to a foot or less above the water-stained floor of the sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

There was only a small photograph, bent and water-stained, of the man and a group of people who may have been his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Girl Blue]

Swung in massive gimbals of gray-painted steel, it stood in a windy, gloomy cavern, under a water-stained concrete vault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

There was nothing there but the blank wall, an expanse of water-stained plaster with a couple of old, rusted hooks on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

Then she put the sweater back on, threw water in her face, and smiled her fierce tiger-smile into the water-stained mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [RL’s Dream] Reference

Scattered about the filthy floor inside the small, filthy room with its caving ceiling and water-stained wallpaper are magazines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

He knew that the last word should be “said,” whatever else the water-stained and illegible part of the message should have read.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

It was a family photo, water-stained, faded, seven people standing and sitting stiffly, taken one day in a studio in Saigon, in 1962.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beard] Reference

I picked up a bit of needlework that's in bad shape--water-stained, spotted, and faded--and the condition was reflected in the price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textile] Reference

I pulled aside an old friend, a great theologian, who has all kinds of musty, dusty, leather-bound, water-stained volumes on his shelves.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

The wreckage on the floor, the spidery steel tower and its ominously glittering mist of fusion energy, the water-stained walls themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

Will leaped off, gave a look inside, and uttered a shout of joy, for there, trampled on and torn, broken and water-stained, was the saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference

Nails sticking through the water-stained walls inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [July « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

Now it looks like a water-stained ceiling you might find in a motel you'd rather avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

Even today, whole neighborhoods remain plagued by boarded-up, water-stained and abandoned houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Hum] Reference

Kitty was looking at her own face with eyes as dim as the little water-stained photograph she held.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference

"They was water-stained by a wet crop-year, that's all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dixie Hart] Reference