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  • Her eyes narrowed as Julia Swanson and Anabel Richards made their way around the inside edge of the circle, handing a pink longstemmed rose to each Water Wings member.

    Maggie Bean in Love Tricia Rayburn 2009

  • Her eyes narrowed as Julia Swanson and Anabel Richards made their way around the inside edge of the circle, handing a pink longstemmed rose to each Water Wings member.

    Maggie Bean in Love Tricia Rayburn 2009

  • She ran around the end of the aisle toward them, the potato chips in one hand, a longstemmed white lily in the other.

    The Flower Man Donna Anders 1995

  • He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • And he laid aside his longstemmed pipe and settled himself to the recital.

    Old Indian Days Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

  • "Drink;" and picking up a longstemmed conical glass which Sir Bale had not observed before, he handed it over to the Baronet; and taking another in his fingers, he held it up, while a very tall slim old man, dressed in a white livery, with powdered hair and cadaverous face, which seemed to run out nearly all into a long thin hooked nose, advanced with

    J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • She carried a bouquet of longstemmed ivory and light pink roses.

    Arkansas Online stories < 2010

  • "And is that exceedingly commonplace incident any reason why he should send us longstemmed roses by the dozen, with a very sentimental rhyme?

    Anne of the Island 1908

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