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  • There were two cabaret accordion performers, Susan Hwang, a tall, longlegged brunette who sang oddly amusing love songs about zombies and bed-bugs that she'd herself composed; followed by Phoebe Legere, that chic, gorgeous and very funny Vasser blonde whom Liz Smith once described as "the new Bobby Short."

    Richard Z. Chesnoff: Downtown With Weimar-New York 2010

  • I was behind him and the two longlegged Aussies were close behind.

    Archive 2005-12-01 mike247worldwide 2005

  • I was behind him and the two longlegged Aussies were close behind.

    Eyes on the Prize mike247worldwide 2005

  • She was the only one of the Worsley girls at the baby shower, mostly because the rest were in Utah, but here's an update: Buffy (aka Elizabeth, front row R) long ago grew all her front teeth in, is twenty or so, longlegged, and gorgeous, still blond.

    found while packing 2004

  • As the rising sun lit the sheer walls of the escarpment ahead of them they seemed close enough to touch, and Nicholas remarked to Royan, as she swung along longlegged beside him, "At this pace we should reach the foot of the escarpment this afternoon, and there is a good chance that we might sleep tonight in the cavern behind the waterfall."

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • He had intended to move down the line of animals without stopping, so as to give no hint of his interest, but as he came to a longlegged bay mare-just the sort he would choose for Tamira-his feet halted of their own accord.

    Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986

  • D D D D D D D In silence, hidden from her, the camera follows as she moves deliberately nowhere longlegged about the rooms, an adolescent wideness and hunching to the shoulders, her hair not bluntly Dutch at all, but secured in a modish upsweep with an old, tarnished silver crown, yesterday's new perm leaving her very blonde hair frozen on top in a hundred vortices, shining through the dark filigree.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • The camera fol - lows as she moves deliberately nowhere longlegged about the rooms, an adolescent wideness and hunching to the shoulders, her hair not bluntly Dutch at all, but secured in a modish upsweep with an old, tarnished silver crown ....

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • He must conclude that secretly she fears the Change, choosing instead only trivially to revise what matters least, ornament and clothing, going no further than politic transvestism, not only in Gottfried's clothing, but even in traditional masochist uniform, the French-maid outfit so inappropriate to her tall, longlegged stride, her blondeness, her questing shoulders like wings-she plays at this only ... plays at playing.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • You were such a thin, longlegged creature, with your hair hanging on your shoulders; you used to wear short frocks, and I used to tease you, calling you a heron ....

    The Black Monk 1917

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