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  • To Patsy had been allocated the Sponsors 'Box in the grandstand, next best thing to the plushed-up suite designed for crowned heads and other princes.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • She remembered putting her fingers to her lips to feel them, plushed and flushed with the excited bloods of anticipation and curiosity.

    Devoured Worship 2010

  • Bonus points for rhyming "I found a cure for this" with "It's got me plushed on some luxurious."

    Sound Checks 2008

  • The herculean plushed one went back to open the carriage-door.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • To Patsy had been allocated the Sponsors 'Box in the grandstand, next best thing to the plushed-up suite designed for crowned heads and other princes.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • The neat man-servant -- never seen, beyond the offices, save in _grande tenue_, plushed and powdered -- entered, and bowed.

    Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

  • "What's the fare?" inquired the humorist, a little "non-plushed," as Jeames expressed it, at the unexpected retort.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • He carried the cardboard on the tips of his ten fingers, up the crimson-plushed stairway to Guy Francon's office.

    The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943

  • He thought of the stairway and how he had walked up its red-plushed steps for the first time, carrying a drawing on the tips of his fingers.

    The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943

  • Even now, at this very moment, the great heart of Jingalo is throbbing from plushed stalls to gallery stair-rail.

    King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

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