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...He stared at me in confusion before trotting briskly away to be replaced a minute later by a tall, willowy frowner wrapped in a heavy duffle coat and scarves – it really was cold! I asked if they had any vacancies for actors. His jaw dropped and for a brief instant I thought he was going to open his arms and declare that I had just saved his show, because the junior lead...

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...f and returned each of the door’s heavy bolts to their original place. When the two men reached the counter they started hauling off their overcoats, scarves and gloves. They draped them across the bar in front of the pretty little hostess who waited behind the counter in a tiny hat and dress, both in matching black. Picking up their things, she frowned at Mickey. “You ...

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...They covered the floor with Emily s beautiful storybooks. Her mother s beautiful scarves were hung around the walls as tapestries. And her brother s m... ... did not go to the dance floor. She hid behind a tapestry and peeped through the scarves wistfully, to watch the dance. Oh! How beautiful! sighed Em... ...10 As she stepped away, she bumped into someone who was also looking through the scarves, right next to her. Oh, I m sorry! Emirosy murmured and bow...

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... night of all nights.” One foot still tangled in the knotted magician’s scarves that had betrayed and humiliated her father, Morgan ducked the w... ...Mr. Faraday, don’t blame my father for this. Something went wrong with the scarves. It won’t happen again, I promise.” Faraday cleared his thr... ... “Oh, please, no. It was an accident. I-I must have got the rigging of the scarves all mixed up, or else his trousers wouldn’t have dropped the way... ...olly the wrong impression. It’s a trivial matter, after all.” He raked the scarves into a bundle and shoved them into her arms so that only the tip... ...nnolly from his preparations.” “Yes, sir.” Juggling the mass of slithery scarves like so many silken snakes, she darted up the stairs. Halfway u... ...tume and lay it in the trunk open at the foot of the cot. She gathered the scarves and tossed them in, followed by the other tools of his trade, all... ... then, too. You and I.” “We…? You? You were that little lass? With the scarves?” “Yes.” Only the little lass with the scarves. “But I was no... ...d a conical hat into a precarious position on her head. A fountain of silk scarves erupted from the hat’s pointed tip. Fumbling with the ribbons th...

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... and made me feel that the sky had gotten below us. A warm wind and some scarves, that was all I needed to sleep, a sleep some- what troubled becaus... ... mother said them, so warmly I can’t forget. We left the house early, our scarves about our heads, women sweeping doorways and steps, sprinkling the...

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...en.(11) Turbans, yarmulkes, crosses, saris, pants suits, mini-skirts, head scarves, bikinis and all sorts of other clothing and jewelry draw boundary... ...st assimilation? Is it practicing their religion when the women wear head scarves or the full burqa when such practices are not required in their sc...

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...brought John to the ancient rocky crypts, a dozen of us. Some of us wound scarves around our faces. Mother suspected that we were followed. She insi...

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... and made me feel that the sky had gotten below us. A warm wind and some scarves, that was all I needed to sleep, a sleep some- what troubled becaus... ... mother said them, so warmly I can’t forget. We left the house early, our scarves about our heads, women sweeping doorways and steps, sprinkling the... ...brought John to the ancient rocky crypts, a dozen of us. Some of us wound scarves around our faces. Mother suspected that we were followed. She insi...

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...icians is hired; women drink alcohol, decorate their hair with flowers and scarves, and dance together until they feel the presence of the souls. The ... ...Lampang, the dancers make contact with the souls by holding on to ropes of scarves that have been fastened to the pillars of the festival canopy. Thos...

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...Santa’ packages aside for the end. They opened their boxes of sweaters and scarves, books, and chocolates, and gave appropriate kisses and thanks all ...

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...eling inches away, her arms strained forward and bound with one of her own scarves. "Dagny ... Dagny!" Tyler gripped her shoulders and shook her. She ...

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...ing on each other’s shoulders, their tales curled around their necks like scarves. Then the eyes of the Storyteller f ashed open and his gaze fell u...

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...t, but she was clothed in gentleness as in one of those vaporous redundant scarves that muffle the heroines of Gainsborough and Romney. She had also a...

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...d sword belts, not by any means the gentle work of embroidering pennons or scarves 73 Charlotte M. Young notable in romance. “Besides,” scoffed Rober... ...ivision of the Duke’s bodyguard, all like himself in burnished armour with scarves across them. The nobles of Burgundy, Flanders, Hainault, Holland, a...

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...into the lane below they saw plumed hats, and shining corslets, and silken scarves, and handsome horses, whose jin- gling accoutrements chimed in with... ...derstorm, some reduced even to the quill, the coats looked threadbare, the scarves stained and frayed, the horses lean and bony. There was no getting ...

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... by officers on horseback, who cantered briskly up and down the line, with scarves and ribbons of bright colours fluttering out behind them gaily. The... ...inct society among themselves, and mus tered very strong with their green scarves; carrying their national Harp and their Portrait of Father Mathew, ...

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... crowns, women with flowing robes, with gold fillets on their hair or blue scarves round their waists, stretching out rounded arms as if to point the ...

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...lano Peak; but the fogs are in possession of the lower levels; they crawl in scarves among the sandhills; they float, a little higher, in clouds of a ...

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...loured Gotthold’s cheek; dim forms of forest trees, dwindling and spiring, scarves of the starry sky, now wide and now narrow, raced past the windows,...

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...l check of grey and red, but she had not completed her attire by the belt, scarves, the loose upper wrappings, and the head-covering of a woman. A bla... ...woman in their lives. But perhaps you would like better one of those other scarves? There are three in there.”—”No, I like this one well enough. They ...

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... the Orleans’ establishment, which was in favour with the mob. Their white scarves were as much respected as the tawny colours of Conde, which every o... ...otel of M. le Prince, among whom, alas! was d’Aubepine. Waved their yellow scarves, laughed at the terror and flight of the unhappy magistrates, and h...

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...e- ginning to turn brown, were drawn up in the outer court, all with black scarves across the breast—George Douglas among them, of course—and they pre...

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...ingott’s arm, in a wild dishev- elment of stripes and fringes and floating scarves; and as this last apparition glided into view Archer’s heart contra...

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... their youth, had already commenced incipient flirtations in the mislaying scarves, putting on gloves, setting down cups, and so forth; slight matters...

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...the Rocher de Cancale, parties to the play, and gifts in the form of lace, scarves, gowns, and jewelry. The apartment in the Rue du Doyenne was not sa...

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...ervant came, and soon reappeared with armfuls of silk robes and shawls and scarves, mostly oriental, things that 87 Hermione, with her love for beaut...

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...aloud by Katharine from some prose work or other, while her mother knitted scarves intermittently on a little circular frame, and her father read the ...

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...remble on the carriage that they draw; and these, and an array of men with scarves and staves, attract a crowd. The juggler who was going to twirl the...

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...teen or twenty rings of tor- toise-shell hung on to one another; the woven scarves and girdles stained yellow with turmeric and stamped with a black ...

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...remble on the carriage that they draw; and these, and an array of men with scarves and staves, attract a crowd. The juggler who was going to twirl the...

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...neral with a white mustache sat with two colonels and other Frenchmen with scarves on their arms. With the precision and definiteness customary in add...

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... contemplation of the beauty of the earth, with its dresses of leaves, its scarves of cloud, and its contours of hill and valley, who would positively...

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...g,” she said. Then Monsieur Lheureux delicately exhibited three Alge- rian scarves, several packet of English needles, a pair of straw slippers, and f... ...time, as if to remove some dust, he filliped with his nail the silk of the scarves spread out at full length, and they rustled with a little noise, ma... ... was well with her. “How good I was!” she said to herself, thinking of the scarves. She heard some steps on the stairs. It was Leon. She got up and to... ...rote to Rouen for a blue cashmere gown; she chose one of Lheureux’s finest scarves, and wore it knot- ted around her waist over her dressing-gown; and...

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...s sitting on the floor of her dis- mantled room with dresses, ribbons, and scarves strewn all about her, gazing fixedly at the floor and holding in he...

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...the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded offic- ers...

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...a. The newcomer was Heloise Brisetout, with a splendid algerienne, such as scarves used to be called, about her shoulders. “Who is amusing you? Is it ... ...ch the worse! What do you mean? Oh, you may toss your head and go about in scarves, you will never have 170 Cousin Pons as many declarations as I hav...

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...their backs and black plumes upon their foreheads; coachmen decorated with scarves and jack-boots, black hammercloths, cloaks, and gloves, with many h...

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...ssoms mingled with rubies, sapphires, and coral; a combination of gossamer scarves that flickered like beacon- lights; of black ribbons about snowy th...

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...the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded officers, ... ...was sitting on the floor of her dismantled room with dresses, ribbons, and scarves strewn all about her, gazing fixedly at the floor and holding in he... ...neral with a white mustache sat with two colonels and other Frenchmen with scarves on their arms. With the precision and definiteness custom- ary in a...

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...hats, Moorish slip- pers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarves, Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cam- eos, Ge...

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... it was thick dark, and the street would be deserted. Then they tied their scarves round their necks, for they scorned overcoats, as all the colliers’...

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...hats, Moorish slip- pers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarves, Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cam- eos, Ge...