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The Elements 16 Piece Dinnerware Set is handcrafted in highly-finished reactive-glazed stoneware.
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And the Don made one of his deliberate and highly-finished bows.
Westward Ho! 2007
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They miss some of the snug conveniences and petty comforts which belong to an old, highly-finished, and over-populous state of society; where the ranks of useful labor are crowded, and many earn a painful and servile subsistence by studying the very caprices of appetite and self-indulgence.
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This is done leisurely and in a highly-finished manner by the hostlers, as if they enjoyed the not being hurried.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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Six large highly-finished Wood Engravings, arranged and engraved from original designs by GEORGE MEASOM.
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The arrival of the King and his mistress is beautifully told, as are the costumes described, nay, coloured, for they are like highly-finished portraits.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 Various
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Its walls had been completely covered with the most elaborate and highly-finished sculptures.
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This is the type of the ballade in its most elaborate and highly-finished form, which it cannot be said to have reached until the 14th century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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It terminates in a highly-finished octagonal turret whose parapet is enriched with a running trefoil ornament resembling that on the base of the clerestory windows.
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We can call to mind a lot of dull, lifeless, highly-finished work, imperfectly perfect, that has won the prize in many a school competition.
The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed
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