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My heart rejoiced, not only because sunlight streamed through the window to make flame of her hair and caress her thinly gowned slender-ness.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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He released her arms to enfold her pliant slender-ness, an unnoticed sob in his own throat as he pulled the ruined gown from between them and threw it into the corner.
Journey Into Love Logan, Jessica 1982
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Dr. Grosart assumes that Herrick kept the epigrams and personal tributes in manuscript books separate from the rest of the work, which would have made a too slender volume by itself, and on the plea of this slender-ness was induced to trust the two collections to the publisher, "whereupon he or some un-skilled subordinate proceeded to intermix these additions with the others.
Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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