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								These included some homey classics like buttery cheese blintzes, and a many-shaped Jewish baked treat and breads. 
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								The beautiful many-coloured many-shaped corals, the anemones and fish there could be seen with a crystalline clarity, and Amy forgot everything else as she stared fascinated. Barefoot Bride Cork, Dorothy 1980 
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								"Starvations;" and all refreshments whatever were forbidden, save what could be drawn from the huge pitcher of "Jeems 'River" water, surrounded with its varied and many-shaped drinking utensils. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon 
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								St. Nicholas's Eve is a time of festive stir in Holland and Belgium; the shops are full of pleasant little gifts: many-shaped biscuits, gilt gingerbreads, sometimes representing the saint, sugar images, toys, and other trifles. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles 
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								They are but mirrors, many-shaped and lighted, for his own delicate, incisive humor. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley 
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								Then took place the first twisting-fit [5] and rage [5] of [6] the royal hero [6] Cuchulain, so that he made a terrible, many-shaped, wonderful, unheard of thing of himself. 
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								For already out of the other world she walked in -- the world of strange kinships and insights and recognitions, where she saw truth afar off and worshipped, and as often met falsehood in the way and turned raptly to follow -- the girl had drawn a vague and many-shaped idea of artistic living which embraced the filial attitude among others less explicable. A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan 
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								It is then came the first contortion on Cuchulainn, so that it made him horrible, many-shaped, wonderful, strange. Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday 
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								With the setting sun, gradually the city turned rosy-red and seemed to lose all substantiality, till it became a many-shaped mist that was dissolved in the tenderness of the sky. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919 
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								"Lots of good I am these days!" he exclaimed, his moody eyes on the armful of many-shaped, many-sized packages she carried. 
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