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								Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. 
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								He glared up at the Silent Ones, his hand twitching toward the high-hung pistol holster. The Moon Pool 2004 
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								So they went on the high-hung road along the top of the Brow. 
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								Word went abroad to the farthest confines of the Turkey Track neighbourhoods, carried by herders who took sheep, hogs, or cows up into the high-hung inner valleys of Yellow Old Bald, or the natural meadows of Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan 
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								Never such sunshine, such crystal air, such high-hung clouds! Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various 
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								It was a spacious room, with pale, high-hung draperies, a scent of flowers, such things as an etching of Greuze, an ivory and ebon crucifix over the bed. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan 
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								On one side of this pillared chamber, high-hung heavy curtains drawn apart, disclosed The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock 
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								There was sorrow on Morag's face when she said that, but the sorrow went as the thin clouds go from before the face of the high-hung moon, and The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926 
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								Archer pushed forward, elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into window after window of the high-hung carriages. The Age of Innocence 1920 
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								Archer pushed forward, elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into window after window of the high-hung carriages. XXIX. Book II 1920 
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