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None of it felt real; the body in the wicker-basket coffin had been murdered, and yet the entire service was more fitting for a wedding.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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Motorcycle aficionados will have a hard time resisting a 1909 Minerva with a wicker-basket sidecar for the driver's riding companion.
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None of it felt real; the body in the wicker-basket coffin had been murdered, and yet the entire service was more fitting for a wedding.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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Klassen offered us wicker-basket chairs suspended by chains from overhead beams, and a Chinese man of indeterminate age appeared at the edge of the room, crossed his left hand over his right wrist, and waited.
The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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You must be informed then, that Gastripheres, who had taken a turn into the kitchen a little before dinner, to see how things went on — observing a wicker-basket of fine chesnuts standing upon the dresser, had ordered that a hundred or two of them might be roasted and sent in, as soon as dinner was over — Gastripheres inforcing his orders about them, that
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Margery laughed a little, and he glanced with interest at the comely picture she presented; her fresh face, brown hair, candid eyes, unpractised manner, country dress, pink hands, empty wicker-basket, and the handkerchief over her bonnet.
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You must be informed then, that Gastripheres, who had taken a turn into the kitchen a little before dinner, to see how things went on — observing a wicker-basket of fine chesnuts standing upon the dresser, had ordered that a hundred or two of them might be roasted and sent in, as soon as dinner was over — Gastripheres inforcing his orders about them, that
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The firing caught two Viet Cong in a round wicker-basket boat trying to cross the river behind the fish traps.
The Village Bing West 2000
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In front of them on the river they saw the dark outlines of several small sampans and round wicker-basket boats disappearing into the night.
The Village Bing West 2000
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Beached on the sand bar not fifteen yards out in the stream was a round wicker-basket boat.
The Village Bing West 2000
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