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She was undeniably spare, and ponderably light, and proveably tall; when people had wished to distinguish her from the other two Miss Archers they had always called her the willowy one.
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That may keep it from taking her past the edge, into the silver-salt dark closing ponderably slow at her mind's flank ... when she was growing out her fringes, in dark rooms her own unaccustomed hair, beside her eyes, would loom like a presence. ...
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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It seemed to press upon her so ponderably as almost to be tangible.
The Highgrader William MacLeod Raine 1912
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She was undeniably spare, and ponderably light, and proveably tall; when people had wished to distinguish her from the other two Miss Archers they had always called her the willowy one.
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She was undeniably spare, and ponderably light, and proveably tall; when people had wished to distinguish her from the other two Miss Archers they had always called her the willowy one.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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