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  • These included some homey classics like buttery cheese blintzes, and a many-shaped Jewish baked treat and breads.

    Here’s Lookin’ at You Cook: Arthur Schwartz 2007

  • The beautiful many-coloured many-shaped corals, the anemones and fish there could be seen with a crystalline clarity, and Amy forgot everything else as she stared fascinated.

    Barefoot Bride Cork, Dorothy 1980

  • "Starvations;" and all refreshments whatever were forbidden, save what could be drawn from the huge pitcher of "Jeems 'River" water, surrounded with its varied and many-shaped drinking utensils.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • St. Nicholas's Eve is a time of festive stir in Holland and Belgium; the shops are full of pleasant little gifts: many-shaped biscuits, gilt gingerbreads, sometimes representing the saint, sugar images, toys, and other trifles.

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

  • They are but mirrors, many-shaped and lighted, for his own delicate, incisive humor.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • Then took place the first twisting-fit [5] and rage [5] of [6] the royal hero [6] Cuchulain, so that he made a terrible, many-shaped, wonderful, unheard of thing of himself.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • For already out of the other world she walked in -- the world of strange kinships and insights and recognitions, where she saw truth afar off and worshipped, and as often met falsehood in the way and turned raptly to follow -- the girl had drawn a vague and many-shaped idea of artistic living which embraced the filial attitude among others less explicable.

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • It is then came the first contortion on Cuchulainn, so that it made him horrible, many-shaped, wonderful, strange.

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • With the setting sun, gradually the city turned rosy-red and seemed to lose all substantiality, till it became a many-shaped mist that was dissolved in the tenderness of the sky.

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

  • "Lots of good I am these days!" he exclaimed, his moody eyes on the armful of many-shaped, many-sized packages she carried.

    Miss Billy -- Married 1914

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