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  • Then he pressed her to the mattress and half-draped his body over hers, feeling her sweet curves against him.

    Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

  • Then he pressed her to the mattress and half-draped his body over hers, feeling her sweet curves against him.

    Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

  • Then he pressed her to the mattress and half-draped his body over hers, feeling her sweet curves against him.

    Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

  • Then he pressed her to the mattress and half-draped his body over hers, feeling her sweet curves against him.

    Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010

  • Some had painted her in clothes, some half-draped, some in that

    The White Monkey 2004

  • I paused beside a statue of a half-draped man with grapes in his hair and a flute at his lips.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • Unlike Krystal, she was almost casual, half-draped along the dark wood.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • Shirley loses her footing and staggers forward, Krypton grabbing for her as Slothrop leans to take the handgun off the dashboard, finding her half-draped over the front seat when he gets back around to the window.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • No! Those half-draped, yet gaping doors, have no attractions for us; those whining notes of soulless music find no echo in our ears or hearts.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • Anxious faces -- faces half painted, faces hectic of dissipation, faces waning and sallow, eyes glassy and lascivious, dishevelled hair floating over naked shoulders; -- the flashing of bewitching drapery, the waving and flitting of embroidered underskirts, the tripping of pretty feet and prettier ankles, the gesticulating and swaying of half-draped bodies -- such is the scene occasioned by the bench and the bar.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

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