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Examples
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They have an extensive collection of cubes in a variety of finishes like aluminum, zebrawood, and mahagony.
Cubes by Interior51 2008
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Chairs, tables, occasional furniture were carved mahagony upholstered in vivid peacocks.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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That in his temple of glory, his skin was nade up to look mahagony.
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Everything on her desk was organized, the dark mahagony looking as polished and clean as everything else I had seen so far.
Brooke V.C. Andrews 1998
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Everything on her desk was organized, the dark mahagony looking as polished and clean as everything else I had seen so far.
Brooke V.C. Andrews 1998
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"The End of the Universe is very popular," said Zaphod threading his way unsteadily through the throng of tables, some made of marble, some of rich ultra-mahagony, some even of platinum, and at each a party of exotic creatures chatting amongst themselves and studying menus.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1980
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The first view of the beef would excite an idea of veneration for its antiquity, *** its color was a dark mahagony, and its solidity would have set the keenest edge of a broad axe at defiance to cut across the grain, though like oakum it could be pulled to pieces, one way, in strings, like rope yarn.
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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He was a symmetrically built, distinctively handsome man, of commanding mien in any company of commanding characters; his full brown or mahagony beard and high massive forehead, intellectual face and eagle eyes, marked him as a man among men, resembling the finer full bearded engravings I have seen of Stonewall Jackson.
Sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry and some incidents and scenes remembered, Wiley C Howard 1901
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So she depended on basket-chairs, screens, brackets and drapery to enliven the ancient mahagony and rosewood, and she had accumulated a good many water colours, vases and knick-knacks.
Modern Broods Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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After he finished preparing the kaira, the Seder plate, he changed his clothing, went to shul and the took my father's seat at the head of our mahagony dining room table to conduct the Seder.
Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva / Baal Teshuvah site for Baalei Teshuva / Baalei Teshuvah and Other Growth Oriented Jews Anxious Ima 2010
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