Green uniformed prisoners paced bare concrete cages with not a blade of grass or a single ornament in sight. |
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Like other arts in Mexico, Talavera ware reflects the confluence of cultures in form and ornament to create a distinctive Puebla style. |
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On the back of each of the pair of vases is a frieze of dancing bacchantes framed at the sides and bottom by a scroll ornament all in grisaille. |
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The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur. |
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The crowd whooped and cheered when Sliwa bedecked the hood ornament of the mayor's Lincoln with a big yellow bow. |
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The singer has an even, rounded tone, an apposite feeling for ornament and an ability to phrase with sprightly elegance. |
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And in her armchair there is a design of Ru Yi, an L-shaped jade ornament originally symbolizing the male organ. |
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It is accepted that much of the ornament on Irish and Pictish sculpture represents stone skeuomorphs of jewelled, metal-encased wooden crosses. |
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Another Milton scholar present announced that while rhyme was no ornament to verse, the return of odes and sonnets was inevitable. |
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I just stared at an ornament on her desk, a glass paperweight riddled with air bubbles. |
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The canne is an instrument of support, defense or parade, without even mentioning the vestimentary object of ornament when it is manufactured. |
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In a fit of fury Calvert who was known to be a violent and irrational person burst into Smedleys home and hurled a heavy stone ornament at him. |
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Three explosions rocked a business park as a huge fire destroyed a garden ornament factory. |
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Local lords and trade guilds made great donations of riches to ornament the cathedral, most notably, its unrivalled stained-glass windows. |
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Stones of deep red color like glowing carbuncles are let into gilded woodwork, and Limoges enamels ornament the walls. |
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Although the cast feet and applied rim ornament are in an ornate rococo revival style, the details are not chased. |
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In most cases, however, the brick, carved stone, or terra-cotta ornament would survive far longer than decoration executed in wood. |
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The relationship between Gothic ornament and literature can be quite striking. |
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Here designers take unbridled pleasure in old-fashioned commodities like ornament and decoration without slipping decisively into reverse gear. |
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Spacious squares with regular boundaries were needed to facilitate the traffic and they were decorous and an ornament to the entire city. |
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If a man succeeds, a woman is the best ornament and symbol of his power and honour. |
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There are several MSPs who would be an ornament to any Parliament you could mention. |
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In this case, Julius Caesar's stereotype of the wild Celtic warriors whose fierceness was an ornament to his reputation as a general. |
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Love or hate him, he has been an ornament to the game as a bowler and has added considerable flavour too. |
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As a person, no less than as a thinker, Ramsey was an ornament to Cambridge. |
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It is very important to remember that the ornament is subservient to the garden and not the other way around. |
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I think we took some chintzy ornament as like a souvenir, keepsake sort of thing. |
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Greek proportions, porticoes, orders, and ornament lent civic buildings a gravity lacking in earlier Palladianism. |
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In the history of ornament it is descriptive or illusionistic figuration that is aberrant. |
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The name drawn out will be the lucky owner of the ornament for the following year and must display it in a prominent position in their house. |
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The counter had been wiped down, bleached, polished, and a shiny new cash register sat like an ornament on its surface. |
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The ornament includes foliated rails below, cast and fabricated foliated column capitals, and the arches themselves. |
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It must postdate Sir Thomas's award of the Garter in 1503, and the use of renaissance ornament in English glass occurs from about 1515 onwards. |
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Nancy Moore checks out a Church of the Cross ornament Thursday while pricing items for the bazaar. |
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All have applied ornament as well as etched or engraved decoration on a spot-hammered ground. |
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Each spoon in the set has different applied ornament and etched decoration on a hammered ground. |
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Related scenes ornament archaeological fragments of two delft chamber pots and a small punch bowl from sites in New Castle, Delaware. |
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Good material showing sutures and growth line ornament are required for detailed determination of goniatites. |
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Spine ornament varies only slightly, mostly in angle of spinules to the shaft, from nearly perpendicular to distinctly distally angled. |
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Certainly the artist of the Agnus Dei might have found a different precedent for this acanthus ornament, but it is relatively unusual. |
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Our examination of this ornament and several other jades has provided evidence for the use of rotary tools during the Ming and Qing dynasties. |
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Adorn a papier mache ornament with two coordinating washi patterns, topped with a craft-store monogram. |
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A remarkable achievement for someone who is well over 80, and is often accused of being neither use nor ornament. |
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We've kept it simple, warm and welcoming, and have avoided the urge to dress it with rambling roses and ornament of any kind. |
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Except the tattooing both sexes are remarkable for their almost entire absence of any marked adornment or ornament of person. |
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This year's ornament, featuring the Agnus Dei, or Lamb of God, art-work from the Archabbey Basilica. |
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It is accompanied with a golden vest and hair ornament hanging down to the shoulder. |
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Each guest gets to take an ornament off the tree, carefully wrap it in tissue and reflect on the year that's ending and the one to come. |
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Burlington, who took over the design from Wren, has almost denuded the building of ornament and left a regimented series of solids and voids. |
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The wall-of-sound of guitars and drums sounds merely like ornament to a lazily crafted song. |
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My single aphorism, derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell, is that pattern, decoration, ornament, attaches people to things. |
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It is for this reason that jewellery boxes are invariably lined inside with a soft material that cushions the ornament. |
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The geometric pattern is found throughout the country in screens, architectural ornament, and decorative arts. |
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In these models, formation of a linear ornament requires pigmentation or ribbing to be connected with previously existing pigment or ribs on the shell margin. |
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Victorian architecture made much use of cast-iron ornament, and great variety is to be found all over the country, from manhole covers to weathervanes, fountains and bridges. |
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Dotted with tiny red berries and decorated with a mix of old and new baubles, the imitation tree is topped by a Father Christmas ornament that is an incredible 102 years old. |
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At Glacier Point, a full vertiginous mile above the valley floor, even the sequoias seem dwarfed by Half Dome, the greatest ornament in a landscape brimming with wonders. |
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This conceptual version of ornament can be regarded either as an extreme case of primitivism or, just as convincingly, as the ultimate in sophistication. |
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In the middle of the pectoral there is a vegetable ornament with birds, typical for Greek toreutics, which is interpreted as the World Tree symbol, uniting all three worlds. |
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They showed a similar effect in paired-choice tests of red junglefowl, whereby females mate at random when neither male has the threshold ornament value. |
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The look soon disappeared, and I couldn't miss the competitive glisten in his eyes when he retrieved the ornament from the floor and tossed it back at me. |
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My first cat, Jimmy, loved to lie under the tree and gently bat one particular ornament back and forth between his paws to watch the glitter shimmer on its blue surface. |
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Flat plates of ivory are inlaid with scroll and floral ornament designs which are used in the fittings of calamander wood boxes found in the southern district of Matara. |
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If you've got one of its skunky previous DVD editions, it's time to turn that turkey into a Christmas tree ornament and take a step up in quality. |
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The incident happened last Tuesday when sun on a glass ball ornament acted as a magnifying glass, causing the curtains of an upstairs bedroom to catch fire. |
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There's ornament in columns and cornices, rustication and pilasters, urns, anthemia, and pediments, with temples and colonnades high in the sky, topped by spires and finials. |
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This example shown in Plate XX combines central bands of Chinese style ornament with trailing neoclassical leafy vines of European origin at the top and bottom. |
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Carved wooden Akan combs were used to both dress the hair and ornament it. |
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Her work alludes to the intellectual rigor at the root of abstract ornament and how the laws that govern such ornament offer a parallel to the laws governing nature. |
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Inscribed with the names of the abbots Daniel and Pachomios, the epistyle is carved with vegetal and pseudo-kufic ornament common to such architectural dividers. |
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The great decorating ornament set with great mani-jewels made by a divine artisan, is not superable by any other human and divine ornaments for decoration and adornment. |
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These transformations of nature into pattern, of narrative into schema, of figuration into device are what gives ornament its authentic character. |
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The repeating segments create loops and coils that visually reside on the surface of each panel and mingle with surrounding passages of more abstract ornament. |
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To this day, ceramic tiles are still used to cover and ornament the facades of buildings, as they are both durable and relatively cheap to produce. |
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There was a hood ornament made out of forks shaped into a pair of horns. |
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By the mid 18th century it was much more common for door furniture to be integrated with an interior design with ornament matching overmantels and cabinets. |
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She has had a stellar career in the scientific field and if she was married to a garbage collector would be an ornament to the gubernatorial office. |
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From Santas and snow-babies to churches, trains and teardrop baubles, each ornament is individually crafted in an intricate process that takes seven years to learn. |
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George Sugarman, a contemporary of the Minimalists who daringly embraced ornament and idiosyncrasy as elements of his practice, became an inspirational figure. |
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Usurpers within the caliphate and the marauding Berber armies they brought in from North Africa were to blame, but for a time Cordoba was the ornament of the world. |
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The rococo style is characterized by exuberant decoration and ornament frequently based on such natural motifs as shells, rocks, flowers, and leaves. |
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Expression of combs and wattles is directly connected to androgen production, whereas feather ornament size seldom depends on current levels of testosterone secretion. |
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Consisting of assorted gold beads that have been randomly strung together, this type of ornament was documented by European visitors in the fifteenth century. |
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The space has been roughly used and has little actual ornament, but everything is deliciously intact, patinaed like an old oak table. |
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Another ornament that attracted attention was the bracelet made of nine Latin Crosses with inscriptions inside. |
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Palmer quotes from Bach's treatise about the length of the appoggiatura and placement of this ornament. |
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As piety is the peculiar ornament of old people, so the want of it is a peculiar blemish in their character. |
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Parts that are egg-crated are placed in individual cells made of cardboard sheets, like egg packaging or Christmas ornament packaging. |
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It has a spherical body, and is decorated at top and bottom with languettes, or 'tongue' ornament. |
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Blenheim is a more solid construction, where the massed stone of the arched gates and the huge solid portico becomes the main ornament. |
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Add a pocket watch ornament with each guest's name to serve as a place card and a napkin ring to the setting. |
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The roofline was generally clear of ornament except for a balustrade or the top of a pediment. |
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Afterwards, they set the mine's dark shell in a park's sandy garden as an ornament together with shells of Strombus gigas from the West Indies. |
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Inside ornament was far more generous, and could sometimes be overwhelming. |
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The Viennese architect Adolf Loos also began removing any ornament from his buildings. |
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I like to tie a gingerbread tree ornament to the jar as well, as a lasting gift. |
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They were always white, and had no ornament or decoration on the outside or inside. |
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Julia focused her attention on a hood ornament and did a terrific job simulating chrome with a limited palette. |
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The questions like which famous car brand's hood ornament is called The Spirit of Ecstasy? |
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The woman who shot a quail perched like a hood ornament on the guide's Jeep wasn't entirely to blame. |
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The style of the miniatures is characterized by brilliant colour and exuberant acanthus ornament. |
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Decorative ornament, often used in painted architectural elements, was especially influenced by classical Roman motifs. |
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The Boy Scout wore a red neckerchief, the ends clasped with a sliding knot ornament. |
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The cormorant served as the hood ornament for the Packard automobile brand. |
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How would that yellow number 2 pencil look as an ornament, inserted through a pierced ear-lobe or nasal septum? |
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In some cases clergy and churches were attacked, with iconoclasm stripping the churches of statues and ornament. |
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The male black grouse's tail feathers are a traditional ornament for hats in areas such as Scotland and the Alps. |
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The Jacklight from designer Tom Dixon is always popular and is an unusual corner ornament. |
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You are the honor and ornament of the orb and the most illustrious portion of the Earth. |
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Praising Gothic ornament, Ruskin argued that it was an expression of the artisan's joy in free, creative work. |
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The Luxury model has a hood ornament bearing the tristar emblem, like other Mercedes sedans. |
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McConnell soon followed, beaming like an ornament atop a Christmas tree. |
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He called for a return to eclecticism, variety and ornament. |
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The figures are highly stylised, and some pages use Germanic interlaced animal ornament, whilst others use the full repertoire of Celtic geometric spirals. |
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Gothic sculptures independent of architectural ornament were primarily created as devotional objects for the home or intended as donations for local churches. |
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Christmas Week Holiday Packages offer Christmas week activities such as ornament decorating, and three-course feasts, as well as s'mores, and tie-dying. |
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Ability to ornament, octavate, play chords and do some improvising. |
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Moreover, a business was created in the supply of accessory mascots available to anyone who wanted to add a hood ornament or car mascot to their car. |
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The barley-sugar columns, carved in spiral channels with alternating bands of vine ornament, exist to this day though moved from their original site. |
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The Convent, built of raw concrete, was austere and without ornament, inspired by the medieval monasteries he had visited on his first trip to Italy. |
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One of the earliest is a female pelvic bone embedded with fox teeth that must have functioned as an ornament and an idiophone, as did pierced dentalia shells. |
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We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter. |
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At the third-floor level runs a band of varying ornament, including projecting panels of glazed terra cotta surrounding roughened, sandpaperlike rectangles. |
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His real habitude gave life and grace To appertainings and to ornament. |
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The decorative ornament on the safa is known as the toran and is typically seen as a door decoration during religious rituals, welcoming visitors and God into the ceremony. |
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These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. |
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The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun. |
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