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Just next to the Tesla coil is a "sharpsichord", another specially built, Heath Robinsonesque structure that weds a pin barrel organ to two enormous, flower-like ear trumpets, the kind of thing the Victrola dog used to sit next to.
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Gauzy flower-like symbols float in the upper depth; ferns nod, bubbles rise; wafts of Hawaiian guitar go by.
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Lucienne's iconic fabrics took their cue from the abstractions of Joan Miró and Paul Klee; her 1951 Calyx pattern, with its flower-like cups joined by thin stems, is a modern classic.
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Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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Gauzy flower-like symbols float in the upper depth; ferns nod, bubbles rise; wafts of Hawaiian guitar go by.
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It was a little like paradise on earth, with you, where the flower-like people turn outward and lure both blank space and the animal-fragrant air.
the human prairies walk Jerry Ratch 2011
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Just next to the Tesla coil is a "sharpsichord", another specially built, Heath Robinsonesque structure that weds a pin barrel organ to two enormous, flower-like ear trumpets, the kind of thing the Victrola dog used to sit next to.
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Gauzy flower-like symbols float in the upper depth; ferns nod, bubbles rise; wafts of Hawaiian guitar go by.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor – including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous.
NOAA 'Okeanos Explorer' Discovers New Species With Robotic Vehicle In Indonesia's Oceans (PHOTOS) 2010
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My illness is untreatable, O 'my flower-like friend
Ehsan Azari: Tales of the Taliban in Their Own Words Ehsan Azari 2010
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