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Everyone's Talking is a brand new band from Toronto and they have just released 'Dragonflies', an album produced by Corinne Bailey Rae releases "I'd Do It All Again" + The Sea tracklisting
Band Weblogs 2009
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"Dragonflies are very feminine -- curvy and fluid," the 39-year-old Ms. Botea said backstage.
Fresh Designs From Berlin Fashion Week Mary M. Lane 2011
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Dragonflies, mallards, herons and buzzards visit by day, and on a clear night the stars are spectacular.
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Dragonflies are everywhere – on the wing, the red-orange bodies of the male common darters are bright enough in the sun to make them seem at first glance like a different species altogether from the female.
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The exquisite jewelry comes first, including a delicate pendant of "Four Dragonflies" in gold, enamel and tiny diamonds, set around a pale aquamarine (circa 1904-06); an ornamental comb in blonde horn with a gold-and-enamel fiery "Sunset Landscape" (circa 1900); and a superb "Jasmin" brooch with transparent glass blossoms and diamond leaves on a swirling green and gold vine (circa 1899-1901).
A Display of Lalique's Beauty Judy Fayard 2011
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Dragonflies tend to turn up at times in my life that I would describe as liminal -- threshold moments when you stand in the doorway between what your life was before and what it will be.
Cathleen Falsani: God Nods: Girl With the Dragonfly Tattoo 2010
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Dragonflies held in the air, tiny, jeweled creatures on the gown of morning.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Dragonflies held in the air, tiny, jeweled creatures on the gown of morning.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Dragonflies hold a kind of magical quality for me, like envoys from the other side that cross through the thin places in the veil that separates what the Celts called the "now" from the "more," carrying a message that makes us pay attention to our lives.
Cathleen Falsani: God Nods: Girl With the Dragonfly Tattoo 2010
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Dragonflies have a way of turning up at threshold moments in my life, like God's early warning system for amazing grace.
Cathleen Falsani: God Nods: Girl With the Dragonfly Tattoo 2010
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