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When the narrator describes the predawn port, his words take on the same lilting motion as "the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits 'wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
Cast On 2008
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I prefer to think of the sloe eyes of romantic heroines, or of Dylan Thomas’s sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea’.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I prefer to think of the sloe eyes of romantic heroines, or of Dylan Thomas’s sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea’.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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