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  • The woman I have been loving is not you, but another woman in your shape,

    C is for Corpus « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • And then I edit and edit some more and before you know it, the words themselves have taken a shape,

    What Does Writing Mean to You? 2008

  • The full moon is her face263and the branchlet is her shape,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She had no fear of the dear old grandfather, in whose love for her this disease of the brain had been engendered; but the man she had seen that night, wrapt in the game of chance, lurking in her room, and counting the money by the glimmering light, seemed like another creature in his shape,

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Now she stumbled; now she faltered and had to play the same bar twice over; but an invisible line seemed to string the notes together, from which rose a shape,

    The Voyage Out 2004

  • So, I thought that I might focus on the idea of upholding human dignity in world affairs and how the Church has influenced our national values in ways that have shaped, and continue to shape,

    Speech - Minister for Foreign Affairs 2001

  • "Kull of Atlantis" was a name that conjured up vistas of unbelievable antiquity, but when these carvings took shape,

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • Just then a bolt of lightning Struck the courthouse out of shape,

    DRIFTER'S ESCAPE Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1968

  • There, limned against the moonlit sky, he saw a fantastic shape,

    Conan the Avenger Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • But soul bestows other characteristics upon material things and yet remains distinct from its gift: shape,

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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