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  • The 1959 version is presented in its original aspect ratio and is generally fine, allowing for some individual scratchy or flecky shots that turn up in otherwise spotless sequences.

    Archive 2006-06-25 2006

  • The 1959 version is presented in its original aspect ratio and is generally fine, allowing for some individual scratchy or flecky shots that turn up in otherwise spotless sequences.

    THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII reviewed 2006

  • As I was bending over her and Paul was thrusting open the shutters, letting in a flood of sunshine and flecky leaf-shadows, a firm, rapid step came down the hall, and a vigorous woman, with a tanned face and a clean, faded gingham dress, stopped short in the doorway with an expression of stupefaction.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • As I was bending over her and Paul was thrusting open the shutters, letting in a flood of sunshine and flecky leaf-shadows, a firm, rapid step came down the hall, and a vigorous woman, with a tanned face and a clean, faded gingham dress, stopped short in the doorway with an expression of stupefaction.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth and lies all up like a puff?

    The Christian Slave: A Drama 1855

  • Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth, and lies all up like a puff?

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth, and lies all up like a puff?

    Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852

  • A common reason of fogging off is caused by cutting off the mushrooms in gathering them and leaving the stumps in the ground; in a few days 'time these stumps develop a white fluff or flecky substance, which seems to poison every thread of mycelium leading to it, and all the mushrooms, present and to come, that are attached to this arrested web of mycelium are affected by the poison of the decaying old mushroom stump, and fogg off.

    Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

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