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All of the usual protocols in a normal Western wedding ceremony are observed, including bride-maids, best-men, ring-bearers, flower-girls, and more.
Planning For A Simple Wedding In Liberia Ceasefireliberia 2010
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All of the usual protocols in a normal Western wedding ceremony are observed, including bride-maids, best-men, ring-bearers, flower-girls, and more.
Planning For A Simple Wedding In Liberia Ceasefireliberia 2010
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You must appreciate the flower-girls and the gr-r-rand young bobbies.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Preceded by Miss Wilson's little nieces as flower-girls we entered the crowded rooms, and in a few minutes the clergyman had pronounced us man and wife.
The Romance and Tragedy William Ingraham Russell
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This last figure is perhaps the most graceful in all the four groups, though the same sort of loveliness distinguishes to a certain extent the two flower-girls of "Spring."
An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Sheldon Cheney
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The fine evenings are come back; the trees begin to put forth their shoots; hyacinths, jonquils, violets, and lilacs perfume the baskets of the flower-girls -- all the world have begun their walks again on the quays and boulevards.
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Then came hurdy-gurdy boys and little flower-girls again, mingling with the landscapes, and thrusting their curly heads forward, as if to bid me not forget them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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It was just one of London's flower-girls, one of the women who religiously meet the hospital trains and shower on the wounded soldiers the flowers they have not sold -- flowers, no doubt, held back from sale in most cases for this charitable purpose.
Through St. Dunstan's to Light James H. Rawlinson
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It was a good mile and a half down to the town, but Nellie trudged bravely on with her treasured chrysanthemums (she alone knew what it cost her to cut them), and Jack walked a little behind, for his sister said that flower-girls never had any one to escort them, and he must not let any one see he belonged to her.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Marketable belles and heiresses in the guise of flower-girls offer their charms and their fortunes in the form of flowers and fruits to the highest bidder.
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