He glanced peevishly toward Pardero, then turned thick pages of pale brown parchment.

She blinked, looked at him again, but a second look did not remove the brown parchment of his skin, and even his loose caftan could not disguise all the marks of age.

Sean saw them: about four miles behind, on the edge of the forest where it thinned out, a black pencil line drawn on the brown parchment of grassland.

The brown parchment of his face tore laterally in a wide and wicked grin.

Someone had dried it out, unfolded and smoothed it until it resembled a sheet of grubby brown parchment.

He thought of the rolls of irreplaceable brown parchment, covered in the fading ink of Dendinis1 careful notes, ashes now, charred in the rubble of the library.

Tap unfolded a piece of brown parchment which had been stuck in his belt.

She reached into a dirty cloth pouch that hung from a rope on her waist and took out a miniature dog-cared book with a cover of brown parchment.

This old woman was, in truth, nothing but bones covered with a scant layer of brown parchment.

His long fingers held the cracking brown parchment open on the white cloth.