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  • When John Updike parodies Jack Kerouac in "On the Sidewalk," for instance, we sense that Updike is having fun indulging in a manner so drastically unlike his own: "I was just thinking around in my sad backyard, looking at those little drab careless starshaped clumps of crabgrass and beautiful chunks of some old bicycle crying out without words of the American Noon."

    The Sincerest Form of Ridicule 2010

  • In the strange and magical P. L. Travers story “Mrs. Corry,” Mary Poppins and her friend Mrs. Corry acquire a pile of starshaped gold paper decorations peeled from the tops of ordinary pieces of gingerbread.

    THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001

  • In the strange and magical P. L. Travers story “Mrs. Corry,” Mary Poppins and her friend Mrs. Corry acquire a pile of starshaped gold paper decorations peeled from the tops of ordinary pieces of gingerbread.

    THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001

  • She recognized starshaped astrocytes, and the presence of macrophages—the cleanup crew, whose function is to tidy up after infection.

    Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998

  • She recognized starshaped astrocytes, and the presence of macrophages—the cleanup crew, whose function is to tidy up after infection.

    Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998

  • She recognized starshaped astrocytes, and the presence of macrophages—the cleanup crew, whose function is to tidy up after infection.

    Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998

  • His face had been blown away by the gunshots and all his bones were broken but I recognized the starshaped scar on his neck.

    Killing Floor Child, Lee 1997

  • Young twigs are covered with rust-brown or light-gray starshaped hairs.

    Chapter 32 1990

  • It took less than four strokes to get across the Adlers’ starshaped pool.

    Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

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