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I will show you a magnificent littla tanagra I picked up yesterday, and we will talk about the new prospectus.
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LINARIA cianea (tanagra Linn.) the blue linet, is supposed by some to be the nonpareil, in an early stage of life, not being yet arrived to his brilliancy and variety of colours; but this is certainly a mistake, for the blue linet is longer and of a slenderer configuration, and their notes more variable, vehement and sonorous; and the inhabit the continent and sea coast islands from Mexico to Nova-Scotia, from the sea coast West beyond the Apalachean and Cherokee mountains.
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There she was — the school girl of a year ago, hair down her back and rippling out stiffly like the solid hair of a tanagra figure; there she was — SO young and innocent — the product of her mother’s loving care; there she was — embodying all the immaturity of the race, cutting a new cardboard paper doll to pass before its empty harlot’s mind.
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Among the most characteristic of these districts are the red-bellied tanagra (_Tanagra igniventris_,
mollusque commented on the word tanagra
A genus of tanagers (capitalized); the color Castilian brown.
December 16, 2007