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Examples
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The hair stood up from her forehead in a boyish elf-lock, and its colour matched her auburn eyes flecked with black, and the little brown spot on her cheek, between the ear that was meant to have a rose behind it and the chin that should have rested on a ruff.
The Reef; a novel 1912
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She dropped into a seat beside her dressing-table, resting her chin on her lifted hands, and laughing out at him under the elf-lock which had shaken itself down over her eyes.
The Reef; a novel 1912
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She dropped into a seat beside her dressing-table, resting her chin on her lifted hands, and laughing out at him under the elf-lock which had shaken itself down over her eyes.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1899
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The hair stood up from her forehead in a boyish elf-lock, and its colour matched her auburn eyes flecked with black, and the little brown spot on her cheek, between the ear that was meant to have a rose behind it and the chin that should have rested on
The Reef Edith Wharton 1899
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How she stooped to kiss the pathos of an elf-lock of his beard,
Poems Madison Julius Cawein 1889
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Madge Wildlife, without an additional rag or crazy elf-lock.
Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott 1860
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