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  • Over the years, Snow found time to sing on Paul Simon's song Gone at Last and tour with him, as well as perform at the Woodstock 25th anniversary festival in 1994, as part of a soul act that included Thelma Houston, Mavis Staples and CeCe Peniston.

    Phoebe Snow dies aged 58 2011

  • And there was CeCe Peniston with those sick vocals over that beat.

    A Perfect Fit Luther Wright 2010

  • Unfortunately, Peniston was one of only about 60 black students on a campus of 3,300, while the "Rock Suite" boys, mostly football players, were white — and drunk.

    Black in the Age of Obama 2009

  • Â Peniston even ties it back into Jaime's use of the Scarab to fight bad guys, which is a nice touch.

    What I bought – 29 November 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • She belonged to the class of old New Yorkers who have always lived well, dressed expensively, and done little else; and to these inherited obligations Mrs. Peniston faithfully conformed.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • The two ladies went upstairs to the sitting-room, where Mrs. Peniston seated herself in her black satin arm-chair tufted with yellow buttons, beside a beadwork table bearing a bronze box with a miniature of Beatrice Cenci in the lid.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • But the effect produced was that of making Mrs. Peniston shrink back apprehensively.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Having corrected the irregularity, she seated herself on one of the glossy purple arm-chairs; Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Beyond this, Mrs. Peniston had not felt called upon to do anything for her charge: she had simply stood aside and let her take the field.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Mrs. Peniston was one of the episodical persons who form the padding of life.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

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