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Dance with your body pressed against her neck and mahogany breast like the curve of a fine horse's neck,
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Quaedam videntur et non sunt; compare her to another standing by, 'tis a touchstone to try, confer hand to hand, body to body, face to face, eye to eye, nose to nose, neck to neck,
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In fact, if you actually acted on any of these traitorous acts you spew in here, I would be happy to personally cinch the rope up around your scrawny neck,
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When the bell was rung, a head appeared between the interstices of the dining-room shutters, and the door was opened by a man in drab breeches and gaiters, with a dirty old coat, a foul old neckcloth lashed round his bristly neck,
Vanity Fair 2006
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She invariably wore a pyramidal cap with pink ribbons, a high ruff round her neck,
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“Then let me,” said the irresistible charmer, hiding her face in my bosom, and putting her other arm about my neck,
Pamela 2006
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Dressed in an elegant patterned white jacket and matching skirt with black trim, and a large string of pearls around her neck,
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And flaps his wings, and stretches back his neck,
Collected Poems 2003
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"I'll miss you in our bed," she said, sliding her arms around his neck,
A Man Of Honour Leonard, Tina 2001
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I'll put on my cap and black fringe all around my neck,
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