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  • Black night favoured the tearing fiends of shipwreck, and looking through a back window over sea, Tinman saw with dismay huge towering ghostwhite wreaths, that travelled up swiftly on his level, and lit the dark as they flung themselves in ruin, with a gasp, across the mound of shingle at his feet.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Black night favoured the tearing fiends of shipwreck, and looking through a back window over sea, Tinman saw with dismay huge towering ghostwhite wreaths, that travelled up swiftly on his level, and lit the dark as they flung themselves in ruin, with a gasp, across the mound of shingle at his feet.

    Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Black night favoured the tearing fiends of shipwreck, and looking through a back window over sea, Tinman saw with dismay huge towering ghostwhite wreaths, that travelled up swiftly on his level, and lit the dark as they flung themselves in ruin, with a gasp, across the mound of shingle at his feet.

    The House on the Beach George Meredith 1868

  • Before making up my face each morning, my pale lashes, brows and ghostwhite face can make it quite hard for me to pinpoint my whereabouts in the mirror.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • You’re thinking of Astley’s Amphitheayter where the bobby restrained you making sugarstuck pouts to the ghostwhite horse of the

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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