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Anklets, knee-highs, even a pair of those awful long white cotton stockings that always sagged and wrinkled around my knees.
CSS: Christmas Cheer Jack Canfield 2008
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Anklets, knee-highs, even a pair of those awful long white cotton stockings that always sagged and wrinkled around my knees.
CSS: Christmas Cheer Jack Canfield 2008
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Anklets of brass or shell, and tight plaited garters below the knee, complete their ordinary decorations.
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Anklets similar to bracelets, and tinkling ornaments are worn on the ankles.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder
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Anklets, very tight, were locked on each leg, and attached, in the middle of the connecting chain, to a bar of iron weighing forty pounds.
The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys John De Morgan 1887
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Anklets (113) contract uncleanness, and they must not go out in them on Sabbath.
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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Anklets of brass or shell, and tight plaited garters below the knee, complete their ordinary decorations.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Anklets, ornamented with porcupine quills; some are beaded.
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Dey's own Signet granting me my Liberty; and that very forenoon my silver Collar, Anklets, and Manacles were stricken off, -- the Physician returning them to the Dey's Treasury, -- and I was no longer a Slave.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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On a tender note, the wistful "Candy Bling" beautifully evokes the blissful realm of young love ( "Anklets, name plates that you gave to me/Sweet tarts, ring pops had that candy bling/And you were my world"), while "Inseparable" aches for a love that went wrong for reasons that seem impossible to comprehend.
The Student Operated Press SOP newswire2 2010
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