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Mounted on a horse of a golden dun color, Tom wore a red velvet cassock and a red velvet hat decorated with broad bonework lace.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Mounted on a horse of a golden dun color, Tom wore a red velvet cassock and a red velvet hat decorated with broad bonework lace.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Mounted on a horse of a golden dun color, Tom wore a red velvet cassock and a red velvet hat decorated with broad bonework lace.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Mounted on a horse of a golden dun color, Tom wore a red velvet cassock and a red velvet hat decorated with broad bonework lace.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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I took an x-ray of the bonework inside there, and despite the x-ray technician aiming for my hips rather than my back they got some decent pictures.
Back from vacations magnio 2009
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Tom's cheeks were still round and soft, but beneath them was the hint of the bonework in his father's face.
Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994
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She loved the villages, and their medley of grey houses wedged among the rocks; she loved the stone farms with their wide porches, and the white splashes on their grey fronts; she loved the tufts of fern in the wall crannies, the limestone ribs and bonework of the land breaking everywhere through the pastures, the incomparable purples of the woods, and the first brave leafing of the larches and the sycamores.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885
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Waspwaisted jackets with big sleeves and even bigger hips were paired with ultra-voluminous skirts that used bonework on the hems to retain their four-leaf clover shape.
Taipei Times 2009
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Waspwaisted jackets with big sleeves and even bigger hips were paired with ultra-voluminous skirts that used bonework on the hems to retain their four-leaf clover shape.
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"Ay!" said the dwarf: "just nose to nose; for that great bastion thrown up there is certainly the biggest piece of bonework in our faces.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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