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I walked along the right side of the church, my footsteps echoing, and I came to three green-curtained booths.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith Jack Canfield 2008
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I walked along the right side of the church, my footsteps echoing, and I came to three green-curtained booths.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith Jack Canfield 2008
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A flimsy door of canvas stretched over a bamboo frame was all that separated the cockpit from a narrow aisle lined with green-curtained cubicles.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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He made a quick turn in his leather swivel chair, rolled it over to the green-curtained window bay, sat like a patient in a wheelchair staring out from his hospital prison, then turned and inched the chair back.
The Old Silent Grimes, Martha 1973
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For two pins Maigret would have stuffed all these letters into the green-curtained bookcase, muttering as he did so:
Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962
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Few in this vast city know the alley in Fleet-street which leads to the sawdusted floor and shining tables; those tables of mahogany, parted by green-curtained seats, and bound with copper rims to turn the edge of the knife which might perchance assail them during a warm debate; John Bull having a propensity to commit such mutilations in the "torrent, tempest, and whirlwind" of argument.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 Various
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At midnight came outlandish Indians staggering under the green-curtained palanquins they call doolies: these were filled up and taken away to the Elandslaagte Station.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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Indians tottered and staggered under green-curtained doolies; Kaffir boys guided spans of four and five and six mules drawing ambulances, like bakers 'vans; others walked beside waggons curling whips that would dwarf the biggest salmon-rod round the flanks of small-bodied, huge-horned oxen.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens
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As the caissons bring up the supplies of ammunition, the green-curtained motor ambulances speed on to the hospital with the wounded and the military police direct the congested traffic and keep watch for spies.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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If only there be no 'small beings' (as Mazzini prettily styles them) in the elegant green-curtained bed of number 44, Scawin's.
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