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To hear that great and noble man's name upon your lips is like finding a dew-drop in a cesspool.
Chapter 37 2010
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And then there is the sophisticated fig, all sugar-and-spice Christmassy, their elegant, coy dew-drop shape dripping with chocolate or drenched in golden cinnamon and nutmeg-spiked syrup, snuggling down deep into a blanket of soft fragrant cake or lavishly adorning an otherwise any-season dessert.
Jamie Schler: A Thanksgivingless Year Jamie Schler 2010
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And then there is the sophisticated fig, all sugar-and-spice Christmassy, their elegant, coy dew-drop shape dripping with chocolate or drenched in golden cinnamon and nutmeg-spiked syrup, snuggling down deep into a blanket of soft fragrant cake or lavishly adorning an otherwise any-season dessert.
Jamie Schler: A Thanksgivingless Year Jamie Schler 2010
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Now under silver air snow-tasting, dew-drop meteorites from shivering pines, the snap of our new-wakened fire
Past, meet future shweta_narayan 2010
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And then there is the sophisticated fig, all sugar-and-spice Christmassy, their elegant, coy dew-drop shape dripping with chocolate or drenched in golden cinnamon and nutmeg-spiked syrup, snuggling down deep into a blanket of soft fragrant cake or lavishly adorning an otherwise any-season dessert.
Jamie Schler: A Thanksgivingless Year Jamie Schler 2010
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All floral green notes, none of them sweet but rather dry or dew-drop.
Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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Wallsend coals; eyes, which were so blue, tender, and bright, that while they run you through with their lustre, they healed you with their kindness; a neck and waist, so ravishingly slender and graceful, that the least that is said about them the better; a foot which fell upon the flowers no heavier than a dew-drop — and this charming person set off by the most elegant toilet that ever milliner devised!
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Wallsend coals; eyes, which were so blue, tender, and bright, that while they run you through with their lustre, they healed you with their kindness; a neck and waist, so ravishingly slender and graceful, that the least that is said about them the better; a foot which fell upon the flowers no heavier than a dew-drop — and this charming person set off by the most elegant toilet that ever milliner devised!
Burlesques 2006
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In its centre was a large dew-drop, as big as the most lovely pearl.
The Green Fairy Book 2003
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In the middle of it there was a large dew-drop, as big as the finest pearl.
Household Tales 2003
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