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Examples
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The Rubinsesque figure within a painting seems perfectly fitted to the generous seat of a Stickly-era fruitwood chair standing by.
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Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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Tobin looked around his thirty-by-thirty-foot living room; at the two Stickly couches and arm chairs with the deep-brown suede cushions; the blue, red, and gold Persian area rug; the ceiling-to-floor bookcases; the framed original art on the walls, a prized Pollock, signed Warhol, some excellent reproductions of Matisse, Pissaro, Monet, Manet, and a few lesser-known modern artists from the galleries on Fifty-seventh Street and Soho.
Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003
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'Don't you remember what your mother told you?' said Stickly-Prickly, --
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'That's unkind of you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'seeing that this time yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw.'
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'That was the very thing I was thinking just now,' said Stickly-Prickly.
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'I shan't tell you,' said Stickly-Prickly, 'but you can scoop me out of my shell if you like.'
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo.
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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