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  • The searching look of the eyes, the sharp voice, the hard knotty fingers, the thin straight lips, the long silences, the "frontpiece" that did

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

  • Banks, who has been guesting on "30 Rock" of late, muddled what would be an otherwise cute frock with furry frontpiece and statement stockings.

    Fashion statement: The Costume Institute Gala -- hits and misses 2010

  • With that comment as inspiration, I would totally make Version B in a chestnut brown with a white frontpiece/shoulders if I were a mom or a teachers aide, to wear on Thanksgiving.

    Today's Pattern Story (and Sale) - A Dress A Day 2009

  • But your books interest me, becuase they are a combination of a minature, an accordian binding, a frontpiece, as well as some form of hand made paper, with ribboning: that is art.

    I try to use Lovecraft to run for Mayor, and the Postcard Plan rolls on! Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Stalin was the frontpiece for a counterrevolution.

    Can conservatives and libertarians be feminists? 2005

  • He bent down to pick it up, not realizing until he saw the scrawled inscription on the frontpiece that it was the first volume of the set.

    One Night Of Scandal Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 2003

  • Inscribed across the frontpiece, not in the strong, measured script of a man, but in the clumsy scrawl of a child were the words: This book is the property of Justin Marcus Homer Lloyd Farnsworth Connor III.

    Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

  • I, of course, made a dead-set at the frontpiece, though I do believe that to this distorted taste, and its accompanying horror of

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • They knew when I had my teeth out and a new set made; they knew when I put on a false frontpiece; they knew when the fruit peddler asked me to be his third wife -- I never told 'em, an 'you can be sure he never did, but they don't need to be told in this village; they have nothin' to do but guess, an 'they'll guess right every time.

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

  • In the frontpiece were engraved the tobacco-pipes, cross-bones, death's-head, etc.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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