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As this solitary and silent girl stood there in the moonlight, a straight slim figure, clothed in a plaitless gown, the contours of womanhood so undeveloped as to be scarcely perceptible, the marks of poverty and toil effaced by the misty hour, she touched sublimity at points, and looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attribute of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism.
The Woodlanders 2006
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The thatched piers were crowded with turbaned Mussulmen in their bajus or short jackets, full white trousers, and red sarongs or plaitless kilts — the boys dressed in silver fig-leaves and silver bangles only.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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In October it was plain that spring skirts, instead of being full as predicted, were as scant and plaitless as ever.
Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926
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The thatched piers were crowded with turbaned Mussulmen in their bajus or short jackets, full white trousers, and red sarongs or plaitless kilts – the boys dressed in silver fig-leaves and silver bangles only.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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As this solitary and silent girl stood there in the moonlight, a straight slim figure, clothed in a plaitless gown, the contours of womanhood so undeveloped as to be scarcely perceptible, the marks of poverty and toil effaced by the misty hour, she touched sublimity at points, and looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attribute of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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