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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • All floral green notes, none of them sweet but rather dry or dew-drop.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • 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!

    A Legend of the Rhine 2006

  • 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

  • In its centre was a large dew-drop, as big as the most lovely pearl.

    The Green Fairy Book 2003

  • In the middle of it there was a large dew-drop, as big as the finest pearl.

    Household Tales 2003

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