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(A suit that is made of silk)
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Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby
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She stands in her loose silk robe, hand on hip, coolly regarding him
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Silk: It is a clear symbol of wealth and abundance
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Four unidentified items marked as ‘belonging to my mother’ … ‘a small silk bag containing locks of Karentze’s hair as a child’ … JJ must have those things … a section headed ‘For Karalintze’ which only showed numbered containers
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reflected in the silk sheen of those
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My boots and trouser legs are cocooned in silk,
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Instead of firing the poor girl, the chairman’s wife asked the maid to sew a little bag of the finest silk and fill it with ground up Puy lentils
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I just had time to get my stuff together and hide behind the red silk screen before the door whinged open and a man stepped inside
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The young lady, who was famous, as is every “glamourista”, for the skimpiness of her skirts and the translucency of her pure silk blouses, stood there dripping from head to toe
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I fall in love with a dress in pale green … full length and layered with an underskirt of a deep green silk with a sort of shimmery, floaty heavyweight pale green chiffon over the top with embroidered flowers round the edges
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Hey, didn’t I see an ad for silk sheets somewhere in that heap of newspapers? That would be something out of the ordinary, and nice too
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little bag of the finest silk and fill it with ground up Puy lentils
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He had on a soft cable-knit pullover with a huge floppy collar, and snug silk slacks that were the height of fashion in the last news they were transmitted
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skimpiness of her skirts and the translucency of her pure silk
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In the middle of the floor she has seen a pile of personal effects; a wallet, cheap beach jewellery, a hair scrunchie, a pair of red trainers and a small pink teddy bear with a heart shaped patch of red silk sewn on its chest
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She wore a green silk blouse with ruffled lace sleeves and waist and gold buttons
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Below that was an orchid color silk skirt that stopped above her ankles
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The madness of taffeta and slurry cuts into his thoughts; maids a-milking dressed in chiffon and silk, wearing elbow length gloves and tiaras
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The ladies espied Harry before he was aware, and marveled at his technique and the fluid movement of the silk line as it snaked back over his head and then with a flick of his wrist, sped by his hat and flew out toward his quarry
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Weaving threads of silver, gold, and colored silk into her cloth, she made pictures of flowers, birds, and animals, so real they seemed almost alive
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mere silk hope to compete with a man who makes even the
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You shall have the remainder of this account,” and here he produced a very heavy silk purse and put it into Harry's hands, “in gold
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"Your hair laid like silk across your shoulder, dipping to cover even your chest at times, as you starred down into the clear water
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hesitation he held it to the pink silk
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the question—fighting was something that was beneath the silk suits and propriety
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She turned and kissed him, sliding the silk
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More swirling mists brought other people, and then all of them were moving again, all eight of them were dumped into a nest where a sultan used to live, all deep silk pillows and drapes
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Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk and silver
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A French author of great knowledge and ingenuity, Mr Messance, receiver of the taillies in the election of St Etienne, endeavours to shew that the poor do more work in cheap than in dear years, by comparing the quantity and value of the goods made upon those different occasions in three different manufactures; one of coarse woollens, carried on at Elbeuf; one of linen, and another of silk, both which extend through the whole generality of Rouen
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Nestled in the foul padding, an eyeless doll stared outward, her silk stuffing oozing down her face like maggots from a corpse's skull
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In 1310, nine hundred families were driven out of Lucca, of whom thirty-one retired to Venice, and offered to introduce there the silk manufacture
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Such, too, seem to have been the manufactures of fine cloths that anciently flourished in Flanders, and which were introduced into England in the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, and such are the present silk manufactures of Lyons and Spitalfields
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More than one half the materials of the Lyons manufacture is at this day foreign silk; when it was first established, the whole, or very nearly the whole, was so
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The silk manufacture, though altogether employed upon foreign materials, has lately obtained the same advantage
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The silk, perhaps, is the manufacture which would suffer the most by this freedom of trade, and after it the linen, though the latter much less than the former
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Of this kind are molasses, coffee, cocoa-nuts, tobacco, pimento, ginger, whalefins, raw silk, cotton, wool, beaver, and other peltry of America, indigo, fustick, and other dyeing woods; secondly, such as are not the peculiar produce of America, but which are, and may be produced in the mother country, though not in such quantities as to supply the greater part of her demand, which is principally supplied from foreign countries
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In the first way, she gives an advantage in the home market to the sugar, tobacco, and iron of her own colonies; and, in the second, to their raw silk, to their hemp and flax, to their indigo, to their naval stores, and to their building timber
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38, upon the importation of raw silk from the British plantations
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The management of the silk-worm, and the preparation of silk, requires so much hand-labour, and labour is so very dear in America, that even this great bounty, I have been informed, was not likely to produce any considerable effect
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And I presented him with three of the flat rolls of silk
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Silk sold for its weight in gold
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The silk prayer shawl he wore over his scull cap contained many colors
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If raw silk could be imported from China and Indostan, duty-free, the silk manufacturers in England could greatly undersell those of both France and Italy
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The British taxes which bear hardest on manufactures, are some duties upon the importation of raw materials, particularly upon that of raw silk
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He was slim in his silk dressing gown and she could make out the outlines of his muscles against the fine material
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All except for two, Terese Silverblade and Arig Flamebow, remained! Terese’s armour and Arig’s silk robe had lost most of its shine, simply reflecting light now rather than emanating it; however, their enchanted weapons still glowed brightly
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The wind was like ice as it passed through her blue woollen cloak and white silk coat and skirt worked with black fox embroidery
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She wore a waist-length golden coat of silk with white embroidery, grey woollen trousers, and knee-high white leather boots
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Jean lay on her front over the red silk bed sheets and thick mauve quilt
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Standing in a pale blue silk gown worked with silver embroidery, the woman heaved for breath at the end of her introduction, the diamond necklace rising and falling within the low-cut neckline that exposed more of her ample bosom than Adem would have considered decent for such times
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She wore a snow-white knee-length skirt and white silk blouse with blue-embroidered foxes on the cuffs and hem, pale blue silk stockings, and knee-high white leather boots worked with gold vertical lines
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Early in the afternoon of April 4, President Lincoln with his high silk hat and long black coat arrived at the Port of Richmond on
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She wore a blue silk dress worked with silver embroidery across the waist and thighs with a low-cut neckline
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She stood on a dark stage with dark silk skirting where she danced in front of the three musicians who were also Torvellen
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The pretty young woman would pocket two of those coins and change which Adem suspected was the source of the warm smile she gave him and his friends as she said, “You enjoy our special brew then?” She and the other barmaids all wore dark skirts and aprons with white silk blouses
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She wore a dress of dark green silk slashed with silver across the breasts and thighs
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She wore a pale blue silk skirt and a sky blue woollen coat with gold buttons, white silk stockings, and blue leather boots
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Terese was dressed almost identically in dark green woollen stockings and an emerald silk skirt and coat
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She had changed into a pale blue silk dress with silver embroidery across the breasts and dark blue slashes across the thighs
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Instead, she wove a tiny ball of blue flame that hovered in mid air behind the screen to give her enough light to find a red woollen coat and silk skirt
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She wore white silk stockings with crimson leather boots
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He had spent the evening still in his sleeping trousers and a white shirt that he replaced with a black silk one when he dressed in the morning
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Hayley wore a green silk dress so dark it appeared black, with silver patterns like birds and fish around the low-cut neckline that exposed her ample bosom
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They were among those that had watched the sword practice, Lauren Celman was amongst them, short with golden hair in intricate braids, and she wore the crimson silk cloak of a Lion Rohjor Ael Tarael
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Bubbala looked slightly awry in a soft mauve silk dress, topped with a bright orange cardigan, her blue raincoat set against her red headscarf, her whole apparel made him smile, Bubbala Celia was ready to party
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Rough handholds had been prepared where the stairs had met a natural object too hard to chisel at and the torch bearer was keen to show these with a pause of his ascent, letting the torch light flood over the obstacle like a silk handkerchief, before gliding upward
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Gorgeous State umbrellas, enormous kinkassies or wardrums, brass-studded chairs, beautifully carved stools, European and native swords, native spears, Ashanti daggers and knives, executioners' blades and torture instruments, brass studded cases, leather fetish caps, silken and cotton cloths, execution stools with recent blood stains, valuable old English chinaware, common table knives, large glass vases, carved wooden sandals, silk and gingham pillows of down and soft cotton, a few tusks, ivory pieces for playing “po” and drafts, a few bottles of brandy, common blunderbusses, old flint locks, a few Sniders, and so on ad infinitum
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and her sharp young eyes noticed a little dust on the silk lining
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she said, gathering up her silk skirts as she prepared to step down
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snip out of the round piece of pink silk so the piece of red silk could
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that traversed the famous Silk Road from China
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50, a lady’s silk lined Bolivia wrap for $7
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When he finally emerged a short time later, covered in cobwebs, a large dull-coloured spider dangling from the peak of his cloth-cap on a shimmering piece of silk, I could see the anger on his face
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Long, wavy strawberry blond hair tumbled over the shoulder of a shimmering silk blouse with plunging neckline
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Upon entering, she was astonished to encounter an equally surprised Caroline Steepleton, the fiancée of the owner of Club Hollywood where Herminia had worked as a child whore, grooming a magnificent, snow-white Andalusian stallion, with its mane and tail brushed to resemble fine, flowing silk
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I can’t place it exactly; but for some reason I squeezed her bum through the silk of her dress
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is the yarn or fabric that is similar to silk, and comes from the
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” She wore a smiling, open expression, loosely knotted silk scarf about her neck and white suit with, of course, brass buttons, and had every appearance of being pleased with Sylvia’s safe arrival
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What did they call them, homburgs? I found it in a second-hand shop and stuck some silk daisies in the band
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� Steve was in a good mood as he strolled through the lobby wearing his grey silk suit and he looked around and couldn't find Linda anywhere
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The drugs had passed as smoothly as silk without being seen by anyone other than Truman and Carlos
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“She is silk, scraps, an abominations of thought, an I where there ought not
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The taste mixed with blood and I held to life by a thin thread, a tethered bit of silk in a great dark sea
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She just continued caressing Vanil's silk soft nose
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You’re now cloaked in a skin as thin as cling film, as tough as diamonds, and as flexible as silk
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He ran a finger over the silk soft skin of her cheek and then began walking back to the camp with her hand in his
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She stayed with the horses for hours, caressed their silk soft noses, and talked with them about everything that had happened
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Everyone knows how silk flutters in the wind, and as the
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Celina was dressed all in white-billowing white robes of silk and sparkling
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Alec Davis, in her silk dress and beplumed bonnet, and kid gloves and gold chain looked the vulgar, coarse-souled woman she was
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Peter Flagg's silk dress two evenings before, when, at Aunt Martha's invitation, she had stayed to supper
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There was a closet in the spare room and far back in the closet a gray silk dress was hanging
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Mary Vance had a lovely dress of white embroidered lawn, with scarlet silk sash and shoulder bows
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Thanks to our raw silk shirts the spear pulled out cleanly
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They were dressed in silk, testifying to the indefatigable fervor of our merchants
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Prick silk this concept are popular and be part of the application, because the concept of
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There was a finished silk shirt dyed red, black woolen pants, and fine leather boots
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There were blue silk curtains sectioning off the antechamber from the rest of the yurt, and a rug made of a kind of coarse fiber covered the ground
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It sinks the price of coloured silks and cloths, and thereby reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand
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There were silks that had arrived via Venice from
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The people of fashion in Sicily are clothed in silks made in other countries, from the materials which their own produces
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Such manufactures, therefore, are the offspring of foreign commerce; and such seem to have been the ancient manufactures of silks, velvets, and brocades, which flourished in Lucca during the thirteenth century
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Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances
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It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc
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I can survive a few hours---days if pressed to it---without my silks and jewelry
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It has entirely prevented the importation of foreign wollens; and it has very much diminished that of foreign silks and velvets, In both cases, it has entirely annihilated the revenue of customs which might have been levied upon such importation
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There would be no occasion to prohibit the importation of foreign silks and velvets
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Nordhellin musicians – both male and female – played flutes, harps, dulcimers, and drums while entertainers danced, juggled fire sticks, did back flips, and somersaults in brightly coloured silks
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Occasionally, a sedan chair held by four thick-armed servants would be seen making its way through the laneway bearing a lord or lady in brightly coloured silks and an even brighter mask with blue, green, yellow, or red feathers sticking up out of the top or around the sides
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They made their way out into the street where people still danced and swayed to the music that floated outwards from every inn and tavern, in bright silks and painted masks with colourful feathers
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The rest of the small crowd in the room were Alit’aren and Ael Tarael, the men in their black coats and the women in bright silks with shimmering embroidery
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All were dressed in bright silks and female breastplates and all rode white altherin mares
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He wears the dark coat, trousers, and boots of an Alit’aren during training though other times he walks the halls of Nordhel in the bright silks and bare feet as is typical of the Sea Immortals
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and were washed and dressed in silks and velvets, and went to
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Most of the wealthier class left Santiago before the blockade, especially the families of the Spanish merchants, and the officers' wives stayed in the city; but there were Spanish and Cuban ladies in silks and satins abjectly starving in Caney
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Fine silks and satins
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Soft bright silks and the feel of eyes inspecting, enjoying
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They were mostly finery: silks, ornaments, jewelry, feather work, and textiles, but they looked like they had never been used at all
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Connor must have watched his sire in awe as he gallivanted across town in his silks and satin robes, planting his seed in every corner, being loved and adored by women everywhere without ever loving
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Here, in the unaccustomed comfort of silks and linens, he can think how best to fight his blood-enemies and win
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He thought he heard the rustling of silks, but she still kept silent
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His manner was slightly affected, but the thews under his silks were steely
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Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-of-gold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers and teocallis of gold wedges
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Silks, sateen and embroidered vest in fine wool
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In front of him stood Tsotha, and on divans lounged Strabonus and Amalrus in their silks and gold, gleaming with jewels, naked slave-boys beside them pouring wine into cups carved of a single sapphire
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'I have not stolen, cheated, lied and fought my way up from the gutter to be undone now by a ghost out of my past,' muttered Publio, and the sinister darkness of his countenance at that moment would have surprised the wealthy nobles and ladies who bought their silks and pearls from his many stalls
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But degeneracy had not yet sapped the kings and the people; though clad in silks and cloth-of-gold, they were still a vital, virile race
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Though he sat among the glittering ruins of shattered palaces and clad his hard body in the silks of vanquished kings, the Pict remained the eternal barbarian, ferocious, elemental, interested only in the naked primal principles of life, unchanging, unerring in his instincts which were all for war and plunder, and in which arts and the cultured progress of humanity had no place
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I pick the horses by the color silks the jockey wears
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Their silks and velvets were dripping and patched, and they had very ugly looks on their faces
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healing therapies choose silks specifically for healing and balancing
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He certainly didn’t look the stereotypical pirate; no eye-batch or tangled beard or baggy bloomers and silks
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with silks and all the bone and jewelled ornaments
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He is adorned with silks and jewelled ornaments
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glowing silks and oriental carpets
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silks draped the walls
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It was tastefully decorated with bright silks and tapestries and feminine knickknacks
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can’t wait any longer as mom thinks I am with friends at the Radha Silks Shop
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If he needed a King and Queen to restore him, he was fortunate in having his remedy at hand; for, soon the large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen came in their golden coach, attended by the shining Bull's Eye of their Court, a glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords; and in jewels and silks and powder and splendour and elegantly spurning figures and handsomely disdainful faces of both sexes, the mender of roads bathed himself, so much to his temporary intoxication, that he cried Long live the King, Long live the Queen, Long live everybody and everything! as if he had never heard of ubiquitous Jacques in his time
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Her hair flew; pins seemed scarcely to attach the flying silks
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Sea glass in a saucer loses its lustre no sooner than silks do
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Sallie had been buying silks, and Meg longed for a new one, just a handsome light one for parties, her black silk was so common, and thin things for evening wear were only proper for girls
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It had formerly been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect
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with fine silks and then hamstrung me so that I could not escape
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I think I shall trade," said he, leaning back in his chair, "to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods
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She was sitting on a sofa placed in an angle of the room, with her legs crossed under her in the Eastern fashion, and seemed to have made for herself, as it were, a kind of nest in the rich Indian silks which enveloped her
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I had spent the previous Saturday lost in rails of ancient silks and feathers
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the drawing room, sedate in dark silks as they sat fanning themselves and talking of Through the open French windows, she caught glimpses of the older women seated in babies and sicknesses and who had married whom and why
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Laces and silks and braid and ribbons, all blockade run, all the more extra affront to the Yankees
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Of course, there were empty chairs and babies who would never see their fathers’ Tennessee, but was that too great a price to pay for such a Cause? Silks for the ladies faces and unmarked graves by lonely Virginia creeks and in the still mountains of
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What did it matter if they did get ugly? She’d probably never get a chance to silks with garlands of rosebuds; pink satins with eighteen flounces edged with tiny black show them again
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as tea, coffee, silks, whalebone stays, colognes, fashion magazines and books were scarce and dear
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on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds tolerance, freed now from the restraints of her childhood, freed even from that last fear and fine upholstery
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They had nearly the same preferences in silks, patterns for underclothing, china-ware, and clergymen; they confided their little troubles of health and household management to each other, and various little points of superiority on Mrs
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Instead Egg would have a seat in the viewing box, dressed in silks and furs, while Dunk’s view would be limited to the four walls of the tower cell where Lord Ashford’s men had confined him
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The Dornish paint their silks, I’ve heard, but you look too big to be a Dornishman
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Ser Franklyn rode a dapple grey with a flowing silver mane, to match the grey of his silks and the silver of his armor
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The Vintner’s was painted with rich purple Grapes; the Peruke Maker’s Sign show’d his most elegant Wares all in a Row (as if set out upon Blocks); the Draper’s Sign show’d his richest Silks, and the Shops themselves were of such surpassing Splendour that they seem’d more like lofty Palaces than low Places of Commerce
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in her eyes, though she laughed as she watched this slim, graceful countess, reared in silks and velvets and so different from herself, who yet was able to understand all that was in Anisya and in Anisya’s father and mother and aunt, and in every Russian man and woman
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She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to her, and a holy one it was
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"Ladies," she called out over the summer sea of silks and laces, capped here and there with white or gray, "it's election time
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And breakfasts on girls and wipes his mouth on their silks, one century called this, another that
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‘Ladies,’ she called out over the summer sea of silks and laces, capped here and there with white or gray, ‘it’s election time
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In green silks the color of forest pools, in silks the color of frog and fern, they waited
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The merchants combined so that all might charge the same high price for food, and with the profits they built their cedar houses roofed with rosy tiles; they dressed their women in foreign silks and were followed about in the streets by bands of retaining slaves
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The chill of the Martian night was upon us, and removing my silks I threw them across the shoulders of Dejah Thoris
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"But I have fought—" I started, and then I wished my tongue had been cut from my mouth; for she turned even as I caught myself and ceased, and drawing my silks from her shoulder she held them out to me, and without a word, and with head held high, she moved with the carriage of the queen she was toward the plaza and the doorway of her quarters
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My duty dictated that I must see that she was comfortable, and so I glanced into her chariot and rearranged her silks and furs
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For did not even Dejah Thoris despise me! I was a low creature, so low in fact that I was not even fit to polish the teeth of her grandmother's cat; and then my saving sense of humor came to my rescue, and laughing I turned into my silks and furs and slept upon the moon-haunted ground the sleep of a tired and healthy fighting man
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The gleaming metal and jewels of the gorgeous ornaments of the men and women, duplicated in the trappings of the zitidars and thoats, and interspersed with the flashing colors of magnificent silks and furs and feathers, lent a barbaric splendor to the caravan which would have turned an East Indian potentate green with envy
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"With final imprecations, Sarkoja hastened away to Tal Hajus to report her discovery, and while she was gone my mother, wrapping me in the silks and furs of her night coverings, so that I was scarcely noticeable, descended to the streets and ran wildly away toward the outskirts of the city, in the direction which led to the far south, out toward the man whose protection she might not claim, but on whose face she wished to look once more before she died
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There was an answering murmur from the far corner of the apartment, and with a couple of quick strides I was standing beside her where she crouched among the furs and silks upon an ancient carved wooden seat
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Like the rest of our waters, when much agitated, in clear weather, so that the surface of the waves may reflect the sky at the right angle, or because there is more light mixed with it, it appears at a little distance of a darker blue than the sky itself; and at such a time, being on its surface, and looking with divided vision, so as to see the reflection, I have discerned a matchless and indescribable light blue, such as watered or changeable silks and sword blades suggest, more cerulean than the sky itself, alternating with the original dark green on the opposite sides of the waves, which last appeared but muddy in comparison
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Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels, and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping western world
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Most of them had to go on foot, shod in summer shoes and clad in the flimsiest of silks and satins, in torn fur cloaks and military great-coats taken from the shoulders of the dead
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Silks, velvets, diamonds glowed and sparkled on every side; whiffs of fragrance filled the air
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In the hall sat richly-dressed ladies in silks and velvets and lace, with false hair and false busts and drawn-in waists, and among them men in uniform and evening dress, and about five persons of the common class, i
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All the people who sat and stood in the boxes on the opposite side, those who sat near and those who were in the parterre, with their grey, grizzly, bald, or curly heads—all were absorbed in watching the thin, bony actress who, dressed in silks and laces, was wriggling before them, and speaking in an unnatural voice
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Ivan Petrovich Brashnin, a typical old-fashioned Moscow merchant, a dealer in raw silks; his family consisted of his wife and two sons
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She did the right thing with such precision, such complete precision, that Anísya Fëdorovna, who had at once handed her the handkerchief she needed for the dance, had tears in her eyes, though she laughed as she watched this slim, graceful countess, reared in silks and velvets and so different from herself, who yet was able to understand all that was in Anísya and in Anísya’s father and mother and aunt, and in every Russian man and woman
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Ten minutes more passed, and Natasha finally drew out a little bag of various colored silks, in which the old princess always kept her keys, and from which she never parted, carrying it by day in her pocket, and by night keeping it under her pillow
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Alethea rose, and, scattering her silks on one side, her embroidery on the other, walked straight away down the terrace, without casting a look behind her
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There were a clamor of voices, a rustle of silks, a clanking of spurs and swords
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By this decree thirty or forty American vessels may import into France, under license, cotton, fish, oil, dye-wood, salt-fish, codfish, and peltry; they must export wine, brandy, silks, linens, cloths, jewellery, household furniture, and other manufactured articles; they can only depart from Charleston and New York, under the obligation of bringing with them a gazette of the day of their departure, also a certificate of the origin of the merchandise, given by the French Consul, containing a sentence in cypher
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Where was her pride during the last year when she exported to her enemy on the continent more than eleven millions of pounds sterling for provisions; and meanly truckling to her enemy, consented to buy the privilege of laying out her guineas for bread; and actually submitted on the compulsion of Napoleon to buy the wines, brandies, and silks of France, which she did not want! This restrictive system, when commenced under the former embargo law, encountered every opposition among ourselves, which selfish avarice, which passion and party rage could suggest; and so successful were its assailants that while it was operating with its fullest effects, (which the prices current of that day will show,) some of its greatest champions in the National Legislature abandoned it—yes, sir, in the tide of victory they threw down their arms
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The brocades and flowered silks which the eighteenth century had revelled in, and if in England not strong enough artistically to produce them itself, had brought into England from other lands;—these were replaced by the dismal things I have alluded to, and no vestige of them seems to have remained in the parlors of that unhappy time