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How about rather than the next frame being in the center of the current one, it's hidden somewhere - like in a picture frame, a reflection of a building's window, perhaps even somewhere subtle like in a rain-drop cheezy or a cell-phone screen.
Go Sens! Rogers 2007
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A tear sprang in her eye and fell down her cheek, like a glistening rain-drop.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Clinging desperately to a few wet sandbags, four marooned muddy individuals glared ferociously at the interested onlookers and developed fearful vocal powers of emphasis that shocked the genial enquirers who came in dozens to discover if: "A rain-drop or two had trickled in."
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq
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Not a word from the young, patient wife; but she turned away hurriedly, and there was a twinkle, as of a rain-drop, falling through the lamplight.
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Ne'er softer fell the rain-drop of the first relenting year,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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He looked in a rain-drop mirror, and there he saw himself a beautiful butterfly.
All About Johnnie Jones Carolyn Verhoeff
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One day, she lay asleep naked; a rain-drop falling upon her breast, she conceived and bore a son, from whom are descended the people who built the "Casas Grandes."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Does the rain-drop doubt the ocean? the ray mistrust the sun?
The Simple Life Charles Wagner
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Tears like the rain-drop may fall without measure,
English Songs and Ballads Various
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A rain-drop fell down the back of his neck, but he did not notice it.
Three Men and a Maid 1928
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