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"Many times we would enter massive art deco buildings, with once-beautiful chandeliers and extraordinary frescoes, and everything was crumbling and covered in dust."
Ronda Carman: Out With the Old? Ronda Carman 2011
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"Many times we would enter massive art deco buildings, with once-beautiful chandeliers and extraordinary frescoes, and everything was crumbling and covered in dust."
Ronda Carman: Out With the Old? Ronda Carman 2011
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Using the once-beautiful city of Beirut—at this point torn apart by a war—as a metaphor, it chronicles the contrast between our “great life” without and the breakup within.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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So much of their shared sorrow revolved around that once-beautiful city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.
American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010
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The once-beautiful caramel complexion was now ashen; it gave her a ghost-like appearance.
Hidden Secrets, Hidden Lives J. Leon Pridgen II 2010
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Using the once-beautiful city of Beirut—at this point torn apart by a war—as a metaphor, it chronicles the contrast between our “great life” without and the breakup within.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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Instead, reporters now become felons for showing the American public the utter mess the Coast Guard, federal officials and BP have created in our once-beautiful waterways.
Georgianne Nienaber: Facing the Future as a Media Felon on the Gulf Coast 2010
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Three of them had died in the civil war that had destroyed this once-beautiful city.
American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010
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First, the police commissioner met with Mr. Preval not in the once-beautiful Presidential Palace in Port au Prince but in a makeshift office erected on top of a parking garage on grounds of the quake-damaged building.
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The once-beautiful targa frame was dismantled, cut up, and sent off to be used as a template for the new frame.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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