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  • Here is peri's guide to tyrants in exile (to be updated in the event Iraq's Saddam Hussein has a sudden change of address):

    Oh Where Have All The Dictators Gone? 2008

  • Julia performed in her own masterly style, folding and unfolding in turn, like two garlands, her peri's arms; then the rhythm becoming more and more animated, she struck the floor with her rapid and repeated steps, with the wild suppleness and the wanton smile of a young bacchante.

    Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume Octave Feuillet 1855

  • Roger had no mind to cherish those small fowls; so they flew back again to Heaven's gate, homeless and uncomforted as weeping peri's.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

  • peri's comment is cracking me up for some reason. i imagine her saying that in a very excited, disturbed voice.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

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