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These included some homey classics like buttery cheese blintzes, and a many-shaped Jewish baked treat and breads.
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The beautiful many-coloured many-shaped corals, the anemones and fish there could be seen with a crystalline clarity, and Amy forgot everything else as she stared fascinated.
Barefoot Bride Cork, Dorothy 1980
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"Starvations;" and all refreshments whatever were forbidden, save what could be drawn from the huge pitcher of "Jeems 'River" water, surrounded with its varied and many-shaped drinking utensils.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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St. Nicholas's Eve is a time of festive stir in Holland and Belgium; the shops are full of pleasant little gifts: many-shaped biscuits, gilt gingerbreads, sometimes representing the saint, sugar images, toys, and other trifles.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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They are but mirrors, many-shaped and lighted, for his own delicate, incisive humor.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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Then took place the first twisting-fit [5] and rage [5] of [6] the royal hero [6] Cuchulain, so that he made a terrible, many-shaped, wonderful, unheard of thing of himself.
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For already out of the other world she walked in -- the world of strange kinships and insights and recognitions, where she saw truth afar off and worshipped, and as often met falsehood in the way and turned raptly to follow -- the girl had drawn a vague and many-shaped idea of artistic living which embraced the filial attitude among others less explicable.
A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan
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It is then came the first contortion on Cuchulainn, so that it made him horrible, many-shaped, wonderful, strange.
Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday
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With the setting sun, gradually the city turned rosy-red and seemed to lose all substantiality, till it became a many-shaped mist that was dissolved in the tenderness of the sky.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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"Lots of good I am these days!" he exclaimed, his moody eyes on the armful of many-shaped, many-sized packages she carried.
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