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  • The French, as a rule, were short, so my tall, willowy, white-gowned figure attracted attention, especially when I was on the floor of the refectory with brush, bucket, and burlap, scrubbing away at the stone tiles.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

  • The French, as a rule, were short, so my tall, willowy, white-gowned figure attracted attention, especially when I was on the floor of the refectory with brush, bucket, and burlap, scrubbing away at the stone tiles.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

  • The French, as a rule, were short, so my tall, willowy, white-gowned figure attracted attention, especially when I was on the floor of the refectory with brush, bucket, and burlap, scrubbing away at the stone tiles.

    The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010

  • “Grrr,” I muttered under my breath, as we parked the car in the packed school lot and wended our way to the auditorium where a sea of blue - and white-gowned students mingled with enthusiastic parents and friends.

    Rituals 2009

  • I have a dozen shades of green laid out on my white-gowned knee, and my mother is threading her needle, holding it up to the sky to see better, bringing it closer to her eyes and then farther away again.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • I have a dozen shades of green laid out on my white-gowned knee, and my mother is threading her needle, holding it up to the sky to see better, bringing it closer to her eyes and then farther away again.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • I have a dozen shades of green laid out on my white-gowned knee, and my mother is threading her needle, holding it up to the sky to see better, bringing it closer to her eyes and then farther away again.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • She pressed her nose against the glass door and saw a salesperson in black directing the white-gowned, lacy future of a lass.

    Style Diary: August 12, 1996 2008

  • The boy craned his neck to see a handsome, white-gowned man enter the hospital room, or cell.

    Genesis Force John Vornholt 2003

  • The archbishop shocked the Vatican by attending the mass wedding in a tuxedo and kissing his white-gowned wife for the cameras in a ceremony in a New York hotel.

    Archbishop’s Book Confesses All on Moon Marriage 2002

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