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Is No Mere Jack-o'-Lantern GREAT VALLEY, N.Y. -- Muffled inside the 10-inch-thick walls of a 908-pound pumpkin, Patrick Moser's voice was an echoing blur.
For These Sculptors, 2007
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The moon -- "according to, orders," as Brett had laughingly reminded her -- hung like a great lambent globe in the sky, throwing a shimmering track of silver across the waters of the bay, and dappling the ripples of the sea beyond with shifting Jack-o'-Lantern gleams of light.
The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler
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It is called 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' by some of the country folk in England, 'Jack-o'-Lantern' by others.
The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel
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Jack-o'-Lantern, Shelby following a day later with Shashai, Star, Madame
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"Jack-o'-Lantern" was the only inhabitant who burned gas hereabouts in those times, and he manufactured his own.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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Harboro think of a carefully constructed Jack-o'-Lantern.
Children of the Desert Louis Dodge 1911
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(Jack-o'-Lantern or fire-fly, as you will) glides like a water-sprite here, there, and everywhere, guided by Cooper's sea phrases, -- for which he had an unfailing instinct, -- that meant something "even to the land-lubber who does not know the lingo."
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She was far more beautiful than the sad, frail young woman who had come to the Jack-o'-Lantern not so many weeks before.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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It was made of black walnut, and was at least three times as heavy as any of those in the Jack-o'-Lantern.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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One of them embroidered a simple design upon a burlap curtain while the other read aloud, and together they planned a shapely remodelling of the Jack-o'-Lantern.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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