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Examples
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Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages.
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He glared up at the Silent Ones, his hand twitching toward the high-hung pistol holster.
The Moon Pool 2004
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So they went on the high-hung road along the top of the Brow.
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Word went abroad to the farthest confines of the Turkey Track neighbourhoods, carried by herders who took sheep, hogs, or cows up into the high-hung inner valleys of Yellow Old Bald, or the natural meadows of
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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Never such sunshine, such crystal air, such high-hung clouds!
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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It was a spacious room, with pale, high-hung draperies, a scent of flowers, such things as an etching of Greuze, an ivory and ebon crucifix over the bed.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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On one side of this pillared chamber, high-hung heavy curtains drawn apart, disclosed
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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There was sorrow on Morag's face when she said that, but the sorrow went as the thin clouds go from before the face of the high-hung moon, and
The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926
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Archer pushed forward, elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into window after window of the high-hung carriages.
The Age of Innocence 1920
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Archer pushed forward, elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into window after window of the high-hung carriages.
XXIX. Book II 1920
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