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A whirl of tutus in a Zagreb cafe-bar during a break in ballet rehearsals: poise, and skin, and fabulous discs of swan-white tuile, and yet what are our eyes drawn towards?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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A whirl of tutus in a Zagreb cafe-bar during a break in ballet rehearsals: poise, and skin, and fabulous discs of swan-white tuile, and yet what are our eyes drawn towards?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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A whirl of tutus in a Zagreb cafe-bar during a break in ballet rehearsals: poise, and skin, and fabulous discs of swan-white tuile, and yet what are our eyes drawn towards?
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With its reflecting pools and soaring freestanding arches of swan-white filigree, the Science Center resembles the Taj Mahal if the Taj Mahal had been eaten away from inside by trillions of marble-eating termites so that only a lacy shell remained to blind itself with its own reflection, a snowy honeycomb secreted by angels, and as gleamingly bright in rainy weather as in sunshine.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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He gave Plavacek twelve swan-white horses, and as much gold and silver as they could carry.
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She is Mary of the Curls – the swan-white modest maid,
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The yacht _Laura_, sleek and swan-white, her ensign and colors folding and unfolding, lifting and sinking, as the shore breeze stirred them, was making ready for sea; and many of the villagers had come down to the water front to see her off.
A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901
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Ah, me! those swan-white, sky-blue, rose-pink maidens who in every town and on every plantation from Memphis to Charleston, from Richmond to New
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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She saw the _Antelope_, once more ahead, swan-white in the new daylight on a great breadth of water which she had earlier heard him tell Ramsey was Montezuma Bend.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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Of roseate lips, dark locks, and swan-white throat!
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