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Examples
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He put his hand into his waistcoat pocket and from it produced a small maroon-coloured ball, the size of a cherry.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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Beyond a pair of round wire-rimmed reading spectacles and a maroon-coloured velvet skullcap, he was not especially striking in appearance—he was in his mid-fifties, I suppose, conservatively dressed, clean shaven, of middling height and build—but his manner, gentle and good-humoured, courteous and inquisitive, was immediately endearing.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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He put his hand into his waistcoat pocket and from it produced a small maroon-coloured ball, the size of a cherry.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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Beyond a pair of round wire-rimmed reading spectacles and a maroon-coloured velvet skullcap, he was not especially striking in appearance—he was in his mid-fifties, I suppose, conservatively dressed, clean shaven, of middling height and build—but his manner, gentle and good-humoured, courteous and inquisitive, was immediately endearing.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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Beyond a pair of round wire-rimmed reading spectacles and a maroon-coloured velvet skullcap, he was not especially striking in appearance—he was in his mid-fifties, I suppose, conservatively dressed, clean shaven, of middling height and build—but his manner, gentle and good-humoured, courteous and inquisitive, was immediately endearing.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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Beyond a pair of round wire-rimmed reading spectacles and a maroon-coloured velvet skullcap, he was not especially striking in appearance—he was in his mid-fifties, I suppose, conservatively dressed, clean shaven, of middling height and build—but his manner, gentle and good-humoured, courteous and inquisitive, was immediately endearing.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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Beyond a pair of round wire-rimmed reading spectacles and a maroon-coloured velvet skullcap, he was not especially striking in appearance—he was in his mid-fifties, I suppose, conservatively dressed, clean shaven, of middling height and build—but his manner, gentle and good-humoured, courteous and inquisitive, was immediately endearing.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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He put his hand into his waistcoat pocket and from it produced a small maroon-coloured ball, the size of a cherry.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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He put his hand into his waistcoat pocket and from it produced a small maroon-coloured ball, the size of a cherry.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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He put his hand into his waistcoat pocket and from it produced a small maroon-coloured ball, the size of a cherry.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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