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  • But overall, cameo roles were strongly delivered, with Alexander Sergeyev a hawkish Espada, Ekaterina Kondaurova a superbly imperious street dancer, and petite Yana Selina a delectable flower-seller.

    Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill – review 2011

  • Intelligent, understated realist drama using Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge to connect the lives of three ordinary men a cop, a cab driver and a flower-seller and explore wider tensions.

    This week's new films 2011

  • I had never heard of Virginia Cherrill before the winter evening in 2005 when I first watched City Lights and fell in love with her performance as the blind flower-seller who wins the heart of Charlie Chaplin.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • Of course, Charlie was on the hunt for somebody to play the blind flower-seller in City Lights.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • A flower-seller came calling with his donkey, and Aghazal and we Sisters went outside to meet him.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • A flower-seller came calling with his donkey, and Aghazal and we Sisters went outside to meet him.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • A flower-seller came calling with his donkey, and Aghazal and we Sisters went outside to meet him.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I approached a 24-year-old flower-seller called Mohammed Ashid, and as I inhaled the rich sweet scent of roses, he said: "I like him because he is a Muslim and I am a Muslim."

    Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming 2008

  • Quoth she, “When the flower-seller passeth I will buy thee a basketful of jessamine.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Kananbala could tell the time from the calls of the vendors, the flower-seller just after dawn, the fruit-sellers in the morning, the vegetable man in between.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

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