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  • BELLO: (POINTS TO HIS WHORES) As they are now so will you be, wigged, singed, perfumesprayed, ricepowdered, with smoothshaven armpits.

    Ulysses 2003

  • His appearance showed how rapidly he had hurried to the house through the burning sunshine, for drops of perspiration were trickling down his broad, low forehead over his plump, smoothshaven cheeks and thick red neck, in which his small chin vanished as if it were a cushion.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • His appearance showed how rapidly he had hurried to the house through the burning sunshine, for drops of perspiration were trickling down his broad, low forehead over his plump, smoothshaven cheeks and thick red neck, in which his small chin vanished as if it were a cushion.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • His appearance showed how rapidly he had hurried to the house through the burning sunshine, for drops of perspiration were trickling down his broad, low forehead over his plump, smoothshaven cheeks and thick red neck, in which his small chin vanished as if it were a cushion.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • BELLO: _ (Points to his whores) _ As they are now so will you be, wigged, singed, perfumesprayed, ricepowdered, with smoothshaven armpits.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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