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  • The designation Orpine has become perversely applied to this plant which bears pink blossoms, the word having been derived from _Orpin_, gold pigment, a yellow sulphuret of the metal arsenic, and it should appertain exclusively to yellow flowers.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • And I called her Orpine instead of Pine, and pretty soon everybody did. "

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

  • Had Chenille, who had stabbed Orpine in a nimiety of terror, loved something beyond herself?

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Had Chenille, who had stabbed Orpine in a nimiety of terror, loved something beyond herself?

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • That's what we're in, and we're just as buried as Orpine.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • That's what we're in, and we're just as buried as Orpine.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • This morning I felt sure that I had glimpsed her in the face of an honest working man; and I think that she was possessing Orpine when Orpine died.

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

  • I wanted to know because I've been wondering about personalities, and so on-whether there's a particular type of person who's more prone to be possessed than another-and I never saw Orpine alive.

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

  • Orpine was kind of a friend of mine, we didn't fight much, anyhow, and I thought it was nice, what you did for her, so when you said you wanted to talk to me, I said fine.

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

  • At any rate, while you were coming down those wooden steps, you came face-to-face with Orpine, possessed.

    Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

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