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  • Tickled, I found her jack-o-lantern smile, enormous eyes, and high-pointed eyebrows told of a darker, wittier person than I remembered from the movies.

    Sam Wasson: La Dolce Vita, More Dolce Than Ever Sam Wasson 2010

  • Tickled, I found her jack-o-lantern smile, enormous eyes, and high-pointed eyebrows told of a darker, wittier person than I remembered from the movies.

    Sam Wasson: La Dolce Vita, More Dolce Than Ever Sam Wasson 2010

  • Tickled, I found her jack-o-lantern smile, enormous eyes, and high-pointed eyebrows told of a darker, wittier person than I remembered from the movies.

    Sam Wasson: La Dolce Vita, More Dolce Than Ever Sam Wasson 2010

  • There are solemn religious processions where brotherhoods of penitents in brightly colored, high-pointed hoods file though the streets and joyful Easter Monday pilgrimages such as the one to the medieval Bellever fortress overlooking Palma, where up to 20,000 participate with picnics accompanied by folk dancing and a funfair.

    Mapping Mallorca 2010

  • There are solemn religious processions where brotherhoods of penitents in brightly colored, high-pointed hoods file though the streets and joyful Easter Monday pilgrimages such as the one to the medieval Bellever fortress overlooking Palma, where up to 20,000 participate with picnics accompanied by folk dancing and a funfair.

    Mapping Mallorca 2010

  • There are solemn religious processions where brotherhoods of penitents in brightly colored, high-pointed hoods file though the streets and joyful Easter Monday pilgrimages such as the one to the medieval Bellever fortress overlooking Palma, where up to 20,000 participate with picnics accompanied by folk dancing and a funfair.

    Mapping Mallorca 2010

  • Parisian face, the mercenary eyes, the paint and powder, the frizzed hair, and the nosegay of gaudy artificial flowers under the high-pointed hat, the polished nails like talons, the hideous crinoline ....

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

  • She too wore a hat, a high-pointed straw thing of quaint design, as if she had woven it inexpertly herself.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • A satchel was slung diagonally over her travelling cloak; she wore a dress with brightly coloured borders, and a long matching veil, on which was pegged a high-pointed head-dress, an expensive gold stephane.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • He was seated on one of those hard, red, high-pointed machines, in which the shovels intended to act as stirrups are attached in such

    Tales of all countries 2004

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