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For the US to co-opt, basically by force and threats, Pakistan to be a bulwark and a rather flimsy night-dress to cover their rather ugly privates up in Afghanistan can only best be summarized as a 'Crime against Humanity'.
Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan 2011
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Instead of the damp grass, he lay on a couch of more than Oriental luxury; and some kind hands had, during his repose, stripped him of the cassock of chamois which he wore under his armour, and substituted a night-dress of the finest linen and a loose gown of silk.
The Talisman 2008
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And so caused his boots to be pulled off, and his night-gown and night-cap and slippers to be sent for; and made the Emperor stay till he could go in his night-dress, since he might not go as a soldier.
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His mother, in her long white night-dress, was kneeling at the other end of the chamber at her prie-dieu, absorbed in devotion.
Westward Ho! 2007
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In the straight, falling folds of the night-dress she looked cold like a block of marble; while I, too, was turned into stone by the terrific clamour in the hall.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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It was cold and dark in there; but before I closed the door behind me the dim light from the hall showed me Dona Rita standing on the very same spot where I had left her, statuesque in her night-dress.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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The skirt of whose night-dress — as it seemed to Johnny — he saw whisking away, in at another door.
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He was in white, like the figure — necessarily so, because he had his night-dress on.
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She lit a bedside candle, changed into her night-dress, climbed into bed, and settled in for a read.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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It was nothing, however, to him if old Lady Demolines, who was always too ill to be seen, chose to roam about her own house in her night-dress.
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