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Examples
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Her eyes were dark and mesmerising, like lode-stars, and small, almost invisible laughter-lines gathered like a fine web at the corners.
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Your eyes are lode-stars! and your tongues sweet air
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Your eyes are lode-stars and your tongue's sweet air,
Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood Greenwood, Grace 1883
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Your eyes are lode-stars and your tongue's sweet air,
Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863
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Well, I had read in the old poets 'descriptions of sirens' wondrous language, wondrous words telling of beauty almost divine in its radiance -- of golden hair that had caught the sunshine and held it captive -- of eyes like lode-stars, in whose depths men lost themselves -- of lovely scarlet lips that could smile and threaten.
Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 Charlotte M. Brame 1860
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The path was now wider and less difficult of access, leading over a pretty knoll, glittering like lode-stars in the dew, beyond which arose the huge and cumbrous pile then distinguished as the castle of Hornby.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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I. i.183 (12,3) [Your eyes are lode-stars] This was a complement not unfrequent among the old poets.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air
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Her eyes were dark and mesmerising, like lode-stars, and small, almost invisible laughter-lines gathered like a fine web at the corners.
SF Signal 2009
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Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue’s sweet air
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