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  • The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating starwise as it did, only reached the quarter where Pierre was staying by the evening of the second of September.

    War and Peace 2003

  • We formed a table of biscuit boxes, which we covered with two recently-washed towels, and then I managed to obtain a fine effect in the way of table decoration by taking the spotted red handkerchief from my neck and laying it starwise as a centre-piece.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • And, motionless on the wall, its feelers spread out starwise, sleeps some great garden spider, which one must not kill because it is night.

    Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti 1886

  • The absorption of the French by Moscow, radiating starwise as it did, only reached the quarter where Pierre was staying by the evening of the second of September.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • MHGinTN; little jeremiah; LucyT; pissant; Calpernia; Polarik; phil dragoo; ernest_at_the_beach; starwise; FARS; sunken civ

    Latest Articles 2009

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