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  • 'White Flag' is gorgeous, perfectly balanced between abrasive and filligree.

    Gorillaz, Plastic Beach (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

  • 'White Flag' is gorgeous, perfectly balanced between abrasive and filligree.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • Wuz a filligree gold lozenge shaype, with a lozenge shape Garnet in teh middle.

    i wud like to see ur suprvisr - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The railing is of good workmanship, in imitation of filligree, and is interwoven with open-worked inscriptions of yellow bronze, supposed by the vulgar to be of gold, and of so close a texture, that no view can be gained into the interior, except by several small windows, about six inches square, which are placed in the four sides of the railing, about five feet above the ground.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • On one side stood the toilette-table, with its small mirror then in vogue, and all its equipage of silver flasks, filligree cassets, japan patch-boxes, scent-bottles, and pomatum-pots.

    Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • How can you be so ridiculous, as to work up your imagination thus, for a pink waistcoat, and filligree buttons?

    Paris Lions and London Tigers 1825

  • I tell you, upon, my honor, I have forgiven you, notwithstanding these filligree-buttons were, certainly, worthy of your attention, being curiously wrought.

    Paris Lions and London Tigers 1825

  • I will not say, that Mary here, did not evince some small degree of coquetry, in her disposition; for Mary was piqued that all the high-flown sentiments, with which Villers had began to plead his love, should have turned out mere mockery, and end in filligree-buttons.

    Paris Lions and London Tigers 1825

  • The railing is of good workmanship, in imitation of filligree, and is interwoven with open-worked inscriptions of yellow bronze, supposed by the vulgar to be of gold, and of so close

    Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

  • The looking-glasses are extremely large, and their frames of silver filligree.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

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