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“Mrs. Gwyn,” she said, refusing the proffered chair, her back willow-wand straight.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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“Mrs. Gwyn,” she said, refusing the proffered chair, her back willow-wand straight.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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A moon she rises, willow-wand she waves iii. 237, viii.
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Quoth he, My wife hath the fairest face and a form all grace; smooth is she of cheeks and high of breasts with eyes of liquid light, calves and thighs plump to sight, teeth snowy white, with dulcet speech dight; in speech soft and bland as she were a willow-wand; her gifts are a moral and lips are red as coral; her eyes wear natural Kohl-dye and her lower labia132 in softness lie.
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She shineth forth a moon, and bends a willow-wand, iv.
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My favours are the longing of the lover and the delight of the desirer; for I am goodly of shape, sweet of smile and graceful as the bending willow-wand or the rattan-cane375 or the stalk of the basil-plant; nor is there any can compare with me in loveliness, even as saith one of me,
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One night I awoke from sleep, in the last third of the night284 and, sitting up, saw by my side the handsomest of youths that be, and tongue faileth to describe him, for he was as a willow-wand or an Indian rattan-cane.
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See not a Dulcinea, in every slipshod girl, who, with blue eyes, fair hair, a tattered plaid, and a willow-wand in her grip, drives out the village cows to the loaning.
Redgauntlet 2008
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But I was seized with a fever of foolish curiosity and went up to the door of that tent, wherein I saw a young man, without hair on his cheeks, who fellowed the new moon; and on his right hand was a slender-waisted maid, as she were a willow-wand.
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Andrew was the first to observe that there was a peeled willow-wand placed across the half-open door of the little inn.
Rob Roy 2005
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