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“The cup-boy is a sun rising from the dark underworld symbolised by his collar; his cheek-mole is a crumb of ambergris, his nose is a scymitar grided at the curve; his lower lip is a jujube; his teeth are the Pleiades or hailstones; his browlocks are scorpions; his young hair on the upper lip is an emerald; his side beard is a swarm of ants or a Lám”
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COLL - some OF everything
collective noun phrases
(222 of the phrases I owe to mialuthien's http://www.wordnik.com/lists/collective-terms)a broadside of ar..., a click of comput..., a pad of sheets o..., a wing of fighter..., a salvo of artill..., a confusion of tr..., an aarmory of aar..., an audit of accou..., a balance of acco..., a cast of actors, a bridge of admirals, a murmur of allit... and 857 more...
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Collective terms
a badelynge of ducks, a band of jays, a barren of mules, a batch of bread, a battery of barr..., a bavin of brushwood, a bazaar of guill..., a bed of clams, a bellowing of bu..., a belt of asteroids, a bench of bishops, a bevy of beauties and 324 more...
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