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The basin was fixed to the wall by two long metal brackets that extended out from the wall along a groove moulded in the porcelain
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Wedged between the metal and the porcelain there was a small scrap of folded paper
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Porcelain fruit leaves scattered in the basket with careless abandon served to highlight the rich and vulgar colours
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Mandy moved with unabashed curiosity to the piece of porcelain furniture and without a moment's hesitation, pulled the little chain dangling from the tank
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In the late hours, when he, Jock and Maggie have sat nursing tumblers of liquid gold, Billy has often wondered why people collect anaemic porcelain figurines and display them in wall cabinets
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Thinking about the white and grey porcelain figures waltzing under a G-Plan spotlight brings Billy back to the conversation he had in the hospital car park
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When he and Harry returned this time to the 'bath room' they bore a large porcelain object resembling an overgrown fruit bowl
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The consumption of the porcelain of China, of the spiceries of the Moluccas, of the piece goods of Bengal, and of innumerable other articles, has increased very nearly in a like proportion
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Privilege that saw generations-old luxury, gilded ballrooms, and finest porcelain
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“That was a porcelain cup, it would take
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I gave Levi Hart an ivory statuette of a man with his son, I gave Robbie a porcelain tea set and a mirror, and to Mary Coleridge, the barmaid, I gave a lacquered box
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He pulled her to an alcove between two polished oak tables with bright flowers in porcelain vases as he asked, “What has changed between us? Don’t you love me anymore?” Jean glared at him with her ocean blue eyes before she replied, “I still love you, Adem
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Place 4 cups of water into a glass or porcelain pot and bring to a boil
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Place 1 cup of water into a glass or porcelain pot and bring to a boil
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He reached into his small sack and with little effort produced a small circular pendant, a thin slice of white marble or porcelain cast around a black mat surface, smooth and cold to the touch
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The Patriarch returned an even wider smile, his teeth sharply white as if made from porcelain
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Bracing his hands on either side of the cracked porcelain sink,
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Her eyes were watery and her porcelain skin was also turning reddish
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to her in a porcelain cup
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Lisa sat a dainty porcelain teacup on the table in front of
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" He bounced the stick off its tip one more time to assure himself it had not turned to porcelain
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The metal slammed bone into porcelain, and broke a chunk off the toilet bowl
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Crystal goblets in the richly ornamented mahogany cabinet, thick Persian carpets, burgundy red leather dining room chairs with brass tacks, silver candlesticks with hallmarks stamped underneath, oil paintings under diminutive wall lamps, paper-thin Meissen porcelain cups with real coffee and cream
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urine stream hit the back of the porcelain 10 seconds before mine reminds me of how bad
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throat, his fingers gliding about the porcelain skin, following the
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There were two embalming platforms (no waiting) in the centre of a large space, each having an E-Z clean porcelain top, chipped and worn from use
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His face was like white porcelain and matched the silk white shroud that covered all but his face
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She’s smaller than I thought she’d be, with chestnut hair and porcelain skin
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His face was pretty enough to be a porcelain doll and I could see he was afraid but hiding it
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He looked more like a porcelain doll than a corpse
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A few feet from JY, Sam could see his raised lips with clear saliva coating the porcelain teeth and hear the deep growl that would raise hackles on a stick horse
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The medical report found minute porcelain pieces from the statue in the wound
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He reached into a small porcelain jar at the corner of the sink top
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As I would drive to a new house in towns like Kendall Florida I would hear the stories of families that said they literally threw their kids under the porcelain sinks in the cabinets and the parents dove in the bathtubs and covered them selves and prayed they would survive
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porcelain figurines in front of a glass front case hidden away rather than on showing
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He could then sense his father�s eyes upon him, before his naked body stepped over the porcelain tub frame
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” The porcelain cup shook slightly as he took a sip of his coffee
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After satisfying himself that the porcelain crown was a perfect match in all lighting conditions, Adam cemented it into place
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Water came, hot and cold, in two white enamel jugs and was mixed in a porcelain basin standing on a metal table by the matching bedstead
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Grouped around it was a stack of clean, porcelain cups
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This historic city famed for producing toothpaste, baby powder, and porcelain, was certainly not a military target, and was overpopulated with refugees
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A phone call and three minutes later a middle aged woman in black and pink entered the room carrying a porcelain urn
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Before I could even make out her silhouette in the shadows of the porch’s over-hang, Jennifer greeted me with a hearty “hi” and her porcelain smile lit up the darkness of the night like a mouth-shaped flashlight
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Under the shadow of his hood reveals a white porcelain
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She was beautiful with cornflower blue eyes and wheat colored hair and skin that looked like porcelain
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and then at the golden necklace that adorned her porcelain white neck
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The question is what to do first: sit on the toilet or bend over it? There’s no time to contemplate the matter, as soon as I see the porcelain my stomach turns over and throws out whatever was in there
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I remembered that a stool with a porcelain jar stood on this carpet
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Eiess’ skin was as pale and smooth as porcelain, but strangely enough, she did, Lucia could see, have light, rosy cheeks
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Charlie had chosen plain looking white square porcelain plates
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was of the same vintage as the building; old blue and white porcelain plates and vases stood on every
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Improvisation to Byron’s missed cue urged her to place a foot on the porcelain wash stand and began to let the tie from one of her stockings, rolling it gently and slowly down her smooth cream pale leg
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Darek picked up the small porcelain cup with his finger and
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The tea service, when Michael brought it to me, was of a much finer porcelain than the old, chipped set I had served him from two months earlier
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“Is it the possible, but not collapsed, wave state of god or cake or just the high probable state of nothing in general?” Waters receded up into porcelain framed perspectives
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up the cloth to douse it once more in the porcelain basin of water nearby
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beckoning her to close her eyes as he blew out the room’s candles, took away the porcelain basin
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He took his porcelain and gold Venetian mask and put it on
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Along the wall were a hope chest with a ballerina music box, a dresser, and rows of porcelain dolls
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In fact, she is the creator of our promotional Garland Girl, along with the rest of the porcelain set it came from
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She brought Magnolia Blossom with her and another child, Porcelain Doll, whom he regarded as the product of an extra-marital relationship
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In a flash, she realized that the Porcelain Doll was Doris and Magnolia Blossom was Rosie
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She took a few steps, walked into the club and stopped under a recessed light in the ceiling that lit her up like a porcelain doll
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Mitch watched the water rise in the bowl, then swirl down through the porcelain throat and gush down four stories of pipes
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her eyes wide and horror-fil ed in a face that was porcelain
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Wiggam threw the journal back onto the table where it collected a porcelain cat figurine and sent it clattering to the floor
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The porcelain being pouts, stamps her feet, then tries to step forward
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There appears but one crack upon her porcelain surface
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He had engaged with hundreds of women of all kinds in his life, during his travels around the world: Dainty porcelain skinned beauties that graced the balls, events and functions of his station; lush and lusty tavern wenches; and sensuous native princesses
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An armoured division of foot soldiers, goose-stepping around her head had now joined the marching band, Sarah leant over the porcelain sink trying to flush them out with splashes of cold water
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hands as though it covered fi ne porcelain
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away the tears that ran down his porcelain cheekbones
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She looked like a porcelain sylph, mythical and magic, kneeling naked in the meadow
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A trickle of blood welled and ran steady down her porcelain skin, marring the perfect snow white of her breast
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She could truly be the face that launched a thousand ships, her red hair lay in crinkled waves against her head where it was pulled back into the French braid and her pale skin was porcelain white
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To bed a Queen, would that be worth one's life? I glanced at her, her Saint-Cloud porcelain skin and Bordeaux lips and Provencal blue eyes
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The ancient thrones of the first ancient Kings have became whitewashed porcelain thrones; we use to sit on, and shit-on… Modern whitewashed thrones called toilets have a hole in the middle of the throne…
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Her old master had callously traded her like an expensive porcelain vase
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And here where service is always with a smile, one can taste and laugh the teapots porcelain and Green-rum tots poured still into the brain
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They gathered around the sunset on the side of Rouen and then swiftly rolled back their black columns, behind which the great rays of the sun looked out like the golden arrows of a suspended trophy, while the rest of the empty heavens was white as porcelain
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The porcelain night-light threw a round trembling gleam upon the ceiling, and the drawn curtains of the little cot formed as it were a white hut standing out in the shade, and by the bedside Charles looked at them
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A large porcelain stove crackled beneath a cactus that filled up the niche in the wall, and in black wood frames against the oak-stained paper hung Steuben's
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Charles noticed that at the bottom of the basin there was a sort of white sediment sticking to the sides of the porcelain
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But what about the priceless Sevres porcelain and the Venetian glass provided for the service of Transatlantic passengers? Well, I am afraid all that will have to be replaced by silver goblets and plates
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Finally, among the Anomura, he saw common drocina crabs dwelling inside whatever abandoned seashells they could take over, homola crabs with spiny fronts, hermit crabs, hairy porcelain crabs, etc
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The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old arm-chairs, in which perhaps had sat Henry IV
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Monte Cristo quickly appreciated all that Albert had collected here—old cabinets, Japanese porcelain, Oriental stuffs, Venetian glass, arms from all parts of the world—everything was familiar to him; and at the first glance he recognized their date, their country, and their origin
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A thick clump of trees and shrubs rose in the centre, and masked a portion of the front; around this shrubbery two alleys, like two arms, extended right and left, and formed a carriage-drive from the iron gates to a double portico, on every step of which stood a porcelain vase, filled with flowers
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A large vase of Japan porcelain, filled with flowers that loaded the air with their perfume, stood in the salon
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She heard the light tread of soft-soled shoes on the porcelain floor tiles
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Monte Cristo smiled at her unusual humility, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could produce
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"Ah, madame," replied Monte Cristo, "you must not ask of us, the manufacturers of fine porcelain, such a question
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Haidee took the porcelain cup in her little slender fingers and conveyed it to her mouth with all the innocent artlessness of a child when eating or drinking something which it likes
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There wasn’t a shower, only a big porcelain tub with claw feet and a shelf piled high with folded towels
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He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart
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Nearly every other table in the room had a vase of fresh flowers or a porcelain figurine on it