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  • She had ear-rings like chandeliers; you might have lighted ’em up, by Jove—and a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet.

    XX. In Which Captain Dobbin Acts As the Messenger of Hymen 1917

  • Richard stared too at the pleasant, furze-dotted commons, spinning away to right and left as the horses trotted sharply onward -- commons whereon meditative donkeys endured rather than enjoyed existence, after the manner of their kind; and prodigiously large families of yellow-gray goslings streeled after the flocks of white geese, across spaces of fresh sprung grass around shallow ponds, in which the blue and dapple of the sky was reflected.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • She had earrings like chandeliers; you might have lighted 'em up, by Jove -- and a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a cornet. "

    Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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