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Examples
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She sets the muffins aside, opens herself, nymph-like, mouth spread and gritty.
Featherbedding Rae Bryant 2010
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The nymph-like styled models walked out in pretty, gypsy-style dresses in a myriad of prints.
Gossip Girls, Geldof, Graydon Converge at Gypsy-Inspired DVF Show 2009
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Chanyud-pul (Sirát), the Judgement bridge, 37 rods (rasan) long, straight and 37 fathoms broad for the good, and crooked and narrow as sword-edge for the bad, a nymph-like form will appear to the virtuous and say, “I am the personification of thy good deeds!”
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Most of the inscriptions at Angkor are in Sanskrit, and the nymph-like apsaras, or celestial dancers, that grace the walls derive from Hindu mythology.
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And the sexy, bikini-clad Andress, first seen emerging nymph-like from the ocean, set the gauge at "super-hot" for future Bond girls.
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In one setpiece, a transparent ceiling is lowered to head-height the audience stands for the entire show and covered in water, and then lightly-clad, nymph-like women cavort on it.
art N A 2007
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In one setpiece, a transparent ceiling is lowered to head-height the audience stands for the entire show and covered in water, and then lightly-clad, nymph-like women cavort on it.
statistical data N A 2007
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In one setpiece, a transparent ceiling is lowered to head-height the audience stands for the entire show and covered in water, and then lightly-clad, nymph-like women cavort on it.
Archive 2007-12-01 N A 2007
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And now, Jeanie stood at the door, with her hand before her eyes to avoid the rays of the level sun, and looked alternately along the various tracks which led towards their dwelling, to see if she could descry the nymph-like form of her sister.
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Invoked by poets, artists, and musicians, these nine nymph-like goddesses presided over the arts and sciences in the world of the ancient Greeks.
2007 August | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr - Part 2 2007
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