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  • We now must as real americans face the facts. either Palin creped into another country to abuse it’s health care system or she’s a Canadian!

    Think Progress » Palin Admits To Travelling To Canada For Health Care 2010

  • A beauty salon owner in Ewell High Street has "three inches of creped cleavage on display".

    Babysitting George by Celia Walden – review 2011

  • Again the flag-covered coffin — the men had dressed Hartnell's upper body in three layers, including his brother Thomas's best shirt, but had wrapped his naked lower body in only a shroud, leaving the top half of the coffin open for several hours in the black-creped Sick Bay on the lower deck before the nails were hammered in for the burial service.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Pease, as done in paraffin, with creped hair and bright, shiny glass eyes.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • Mrs. Ree; her high narrow forehead fairly creped with little wrinkles:

    What Diantha Did Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

  • His hair in front was well loaded with pomatum, frizzled or creped, and powdered; the ear locks had undergone the same process.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Was it to do honor to the guest that Beatrix had wound into her hair those tufts of blue-bells that gave value to the pale tints of her creped curls, so arranged as to fall around her face and play upon the cheeks?

    Beatrix 1839

  • The gowns of the royalist women, which recalled the fashions of the exiled court, and their creped and powdered hair seemed absurd as soon as they were contrasted with the attire which republican fashions authorized Mademoiselle de Verneuil to wear.

    The Chouans Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Was it to do honor to the guest that Beatrix had wound into her hair those tufts of blue-bells that gave value to the pale tints of her creped curls, so arranged as to fall around her face and play upon the cheeks?

    Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • The smistog that creped in earlier now sat around the dorsal fins lit up by the lights of the junks that sat at the base.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

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