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Huge, platterlike white flowers shining in the night to soften their plaintive howling.

Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005

It was beneath that roof that Switters and Smithe took refuge, at first from the sun and, no more than five minutes later, from the rain; for scarcely had Smithe commenced to expound upon the Nacanaca, the Kandakandero chap, and the request to borrow Maestra's parrot, than a few guppy-sized waterdrops began to dash themselves against the dusty earth or splat with a timid thump against the platterlike leaves of thick green plants.

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

It was beneath that roof that Switters and Smithe took refuge, at first from the sun and, no more than five minutes later, from the rain; for scarcely had Smithe commenced to expound upon the Nacanaca, the Kandakandero chap, and the request to borrow Maestra's parrot, than a few guppy-sized waterdrops began to dash themselves against the dusty earth or splat with a timid thump against the platterlike leaves of thick green plants.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

But what's good is great: for example, a platterlike feather number from 18th-century London.

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But what's good is great: for example, a platterlike feather number from 18th-century London.

NYT > Home Page 2011

But what's good is great: for example, a platterlike feather number from 18th-century London.

NYT > Home Page 2011

a man have a lean face, the Marquis Otto's cut makes it broad; if it be platterlike, the long, slender beard makes it seem narrow; "if he be weasel-beaked, then much hair left on the cheeks will make the owner look big like a bowdled hen, and so grim as a goose."

For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864

a man have a lean face, the Marquis Otto's cut makes it broad; if it be platterlike, the long, slender beard makes it seem narrow; "if he be weasel-beaked, then much hair left on the cheeks will make the owner look big like a bowdled hen, and so grim as a goose."

Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

a man have a lean face, the Marquis Otto's cut makes it broad; if it be platterlike, the long, slender beard makes it seem narrow; "if he be weasel-beaked, then much hair left on the cheeks will make the owner look big like a bowdled hen, and so grim as a goose."

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864