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When he listened to his companions gossiping about their mothers — those cozy, pincushiony mamas, who never cuffed a child without a follow-up cuddle — he knew that nothing about Elphaba smacked of the maternal.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel.
By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869
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The door here opened, and a little short, round, pincushiony woman stood at the door, with a cheery, blooming face, like a ripe apple.
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