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from The Century Dictionary.
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Examples
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She watched the six-armed men and women weave patterns in the air, tapestries of muscle and sinew that had been braided on the looms of ten centuries, and she imagined herself as a little six-armed goat-girl, high in the steppes of the Newark Mountains, playing her Pan-flutes, and her fiddle, and her drum, and her finger-cymbals, all at once.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009
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She watched the six-armed men and women weave patterns in the air, tapestries of muscle and sinew that had been braided on the looms of ten centuries, and she imagined herself as a little six-armed goat-girl, high in the steppes of the Newark Mountains, playing her Pan-flutes, and her fiddle, and her drum, and her finger-cymbals, all at once.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009
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She watched the six-armed men and women weave patterns in the air, tapestries of muscle and sinew that had been braided on the looms of ten centuries, and she imagined herself as a little six-armed goat-girl, high in the steppes of the Newark Mountains, playing her Pan-flutes, and her fiddle, and her drum, and her finger-cymbals, all at once.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009
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She watched the six-armed men and women weave patterns in the air, tapestries of muscle and sinew that had been braided on the looms of ten centuries, and she imagined herself as a little six-armed goat-girl, high in the steppes of the Newark Mountains, playing her Pan-flutes, and her fiddle, and her drum, and her finger-cymbals, all at once.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009
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To the sound of the music they began to dance, finger-cymbals clinking and tiny golden bells tinkling at their ankles.
Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984
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Golden lamps, hanging on silver chains from the vaulted ceiling, cast a sheen on the olive skins of six veiled, supple women, clothed in naught else but tinkling golden bells at their ankles, who danced with finger-cymbals.
Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984
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