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Examples
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This was a tip of the sombrero to Southwestern regional food but smooth enough to fit on a gourmet menu such as Sepia's.
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'Sepia's the nastiest colour in the box, I think,' said Jane, sucking her brush.
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Hitherto Hesper had never been satisfied without Sepia's opinion and final approval in that weightiest of affairs, the matter of dress; but she found in Mary such a faculty as rendered appeal to Sepia unnecessary; for she not only satisfied her idea of herself, and how she would choose to look, but showed her taste as much surer than Sepia's as
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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Sepia's eyes, I confess, were not lords of the deepest light -- for she was not true; but neither was theirs a surface light, generated of merely physical causes: through them, concentrating her will upon their utterance, she could establish a psychical contact with
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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But Sepia's way of talking about Tom, whatever she meant by it, was disgraceful!
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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He knew nothing of all that my readers know to Sepia's disadvantage, and her eyes were enough to subdue most men from the first -- for a time at least.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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He believed he knew Sepia's self, although he did not yet know her history; and he scorned her the more that he was not a hair better himself.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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Sepia's one thought therefore was: could not something be done to prevent the making of another will, or the leaving of any fresh document behind him?
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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Across the cloud of this death gleamed, certainly, the flashing of Sepia's eyes, or the softly infolding dawn of her smile, but only, the next hour, nay, the next moment, to leave all darker than before.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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At the very first glance she suspected some hostile influence at work -- intentionally hostile, for persons with a consciousness like Sepia's are always imagining enemies.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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