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  • Being a hedgerow plant, it is happy to live in the shade, and its laciness is a delicious thing for the moment it is in flower.

    Jolly brollies 2010

  • Orlaya grandiflora is a wonderful annual that I am also direct sowing, which despite its laciness picks well.

    Jolly brollies 2010

  • My lovely friend Kelly, upon hearing that I was going bra shopping after three years in nursing bras, hooked me up with 14 sets of bras and panties - a wonderful variety of colours, laciness, raciness, and sex appeal.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Kat 2009

  • Here and there the shadows reached long from formations whose laciness came aglitter and aglisten.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Here and there the shadows reached long from formations whose laciness came aglitter and aglisten.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Beneath the stuff of her blouse he could see a faint laciness where her body touched it on the inside.

    Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

  • Gothic, of which it has, no doubt, the quality of lightness, the laciness, and the play of many fine apertures and openings.

    The Art of the Exposition Eugen Neuhaus 1921

  • Oh, she was ashamed of Centerville, ashamed of Mrs. Tom Tuttle's effusion, ashamed of her own handmade dress that she had thought so dainty in its white laciness.

    A Long-Distance Call From Jim 1919

  • He had admired the pretty laciness of it that evening in the smoking-room.

    The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • I think a little hint of laciness around the edge makes the simpler ring pattern really shine.

    b r o o k l y n t w e e d 2010

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