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  • These done-up boxes now offer everything from fine dining to a special welcome.

    The Cost of Watching Cricket in Comfort Shruti Chakraborty 2011

  • Think of the harping on about the "special relationship" – not so much special, as the only one possible for two such done-up wallflowers.

    To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity Michael Hofmann 2010

  • Pristine Rileys, exceptional Wolseleys, all done-up in a condition that usually far surpasses the original showroom condition.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Peter Ashley 2007

  • Pristine Rileys, exceptional Wolseleys, all done-up in a condition that usually far surpasses the original showroom condition.

    Bentley Boys Peter Ashley 2007

  • I drew for five hours straight that first day—children and their parents, whole busloads of tourists and a handful of locals, too, everybody done-up and distorted, everybody having a good time.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Her sandy hair was done-up so that it not blow in the Catalina breeze, yet strands of it fell long just past her chin, tossing like streamers and illustrated by the sun with shades like blonde and faint glares of gold.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1 2009

  • I drew for five hours straight that first day—children and their parents, whole busloads of tourists and a handful of locals, too, everybody done-up and distorted, everybody having a good time.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Michelle Obama looks like a modern day professional working mother without the luxury of time to look perfectly done-up by a stylist, but who enjoys her clothes.

    Elizabeth Donoghue: About That Dress... 2008

  • Started at five p.m. for the William Spring with fourteen horses, leaving the weak and done-up ones at Mount Margaret for another week to recover.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • Had to leave one of the done-up horses about two miles behind.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

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