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  • Nina, we are told, is a natural white swan, not because her dancing is particularly lyrical or ethereal, but because she's still a girl-a virgin.

    Debra Levine: Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN: Raw Deal for Odile Debra Levine 2010

  • Nina, we are told, is a natural white swan, not because her dancing is particularly lyrical or ethereal, but because she's still a girl-a virgin.

    Debra Levine: Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN: Raw Deal for Odile Debra Levine 2010

  • Nina, we are told, is a natural white swan, not because her dancing is particularly lyrical or ethereal, but because she's still a girl-a virgin.

    Debra Levine: Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN: Raw Deal for Odile Debra Levine 2010

  • Nina, we are told, is a natural white swan, not because her dancing is particularly lyrical or ethereal, but because she's still a girl-a virgin.

    Debra Levine: Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN: Raw Deal for Odile Debra Levine 2010

  • The king would be appalled, and the entire court would say that he was angry because a girl-a legitimate girl-would replace him in the royal line.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • It was a girl-a woman'dressed in a glove-tight suit of black leather studded in silver, that covered all of her but her face.

    Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Tears blurred sight of the woman who stood before the girl-a woman who looked young and yet somehow old as time; tall, slim, in a maroon dress of quiet elegance, a silver snake bracelet on her left wrist and at her throat a golden pendant whose intertwined circle and triangle surrounded a ruby; too dark to be called high yellow, but with narrow face, arched nose, hair straight and stiff.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Maggie was there with the other girl-a blonde named Miriam Booth who was a clerk in Quartermaster's store.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • For if she were not taken, there would be a massive hunt for her, a lost girl-a beautiful deaf-mute.

    Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

  • Then, with an appreciative look into the pleasant, whiskered countenance, whose owner was holding her so securely on her precarious perch, she pressed her little hand gently against his waistcoat, and gravely remarked, "Nice-a girl-a, _anche il Signore_!"

    A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

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