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  • An enormous tamarind shaded with its dark foliage the whole white framehouse.

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • An enormous tamarind shaded with its dark foliage the whole white framehouse.

    Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

  • In the summer he retired to a solitary, white framehouse with green blinds, surrounded by a few feet of uncared-for grass and a white fence; its interior more dreary still, with iron stoves, oil-cloth carpets, cold white walls, and one large engraving of Abraham Lincoln in the parlour; all in Peonia,

    Democracy, an American novel Henry Adams 1878

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