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He wasn't performing that night but was dressed in his usual outfit: black beret, white sunglasses, bright shirt open at the collar, narrow-pointed leather shoes.
Africa Dispatch: Where Nigeria's Beautiful People Go...for Springrolls 2010
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The petals are numerous, narrow-pointed, spreading, pure white, the stamens pale yellow, and the star-like stigma white.
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The sticks are usually cut by thrusting down a stiff narrow-pointed knife, or specially made saw, close to each shoot; and it is necessary to do this with judgment, or adjacent shoots, which are not sufficiently advanced to reveal their presence by lifting the soil, may be damaged.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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The cones are conical or flask-shaped, their broad ends resting upon the membrana limitans externa, the narrow-pointed extremity being turned to the choroid.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye 1918
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One contained a small composing stone, a cleaning brush, a composing stick, a pair of narrow-pointed pliers, a mallet and planer.
The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909
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According to her, Mary was fair-haired, with large eyes, a rather long nose, a narrow-pointed chin,
The Cathedral 1877
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The curved beak, of considerable length, was half open, and displayed a narrow-pointed tongue, on which were still the remains of red paint.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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You cannot imagine what tufted elegance, what richness of open-work tracery this encroachment of the ivy throws upon the rather gaunt and sharp gable-end of the building, which on this front has for ornament but four narrow-pointed windows, surmounted by three trefoil quadrilobes.
The Cross of Berny Jules Sandeau 1847
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The chamber allotted him was square, tolerably lofty, and had two narrow-pointed windows on either side, looking on the one hand into the upper quadrangle, and on the other into the middle ward.
Windsor Castle William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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One of these, with a chestnut breast, smoke-coloured back, tail red, white feathers like horns on his head, and white narrow-pointed feathers under the jaw, feeds entirely upon ants.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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