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  • Past these windows, from Randolph to Twelfth surges the crowd: matinee girls, all white fox, and giggles and orchids; wise-eyed saleswomen from the smart specialty shops, dressed in next week's mode; art students, hugging their precious flat packages under their arms; immigrants, in corduroys and shawls, just landed at the Twelfth street station; sightseeing families, dazed and weary, from Kansas; tailored and sabled

    Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926

  • To spread their sabled amber on her lustrous brine.

    The Burial of Robert Browning 1895

  • The eyelids are sabled with kohl, and such other paints, oils, varnishes and dyestuffs are used as the fair one -- who is a trifle dark, by the way -- may have proved for herself, or accepted on the superior judgment of her European sisters.

    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • These supplied the place of the daylight, when the dusk of evening sabled, or night wholly involved the solitude.

    The Friendships of Women William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • (CLI) ck (DI) sabled (BU) ttons aka CLIDIBU is my newest creation:

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • [13: 48] Zep Palen: Madam. .the point is ... have an oppinion and you are sabled

    World of SL 2009

  • (CLI) ck (DI) sabled (BU) ttons aka CLIDIBU is my newest creation:

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • -- some in locks of sable silvered, and some of silver sabled, -- do you remember, as you doze over this, those after-dinners at the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • - some in locks of sable silvered, and some of silver sabled, -- do you remember, as you doze over this, those after-dinners at the

    Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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