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Elsewhere a line of shadow accentuates the faceted curve of one of the architect's signature stilt-like supports.
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Nylon Fashion Director Dani Stahl, who was hosting a Lia Sophia jewelry event at the Sunset Tower Hotel later that evening, sported a cool copper headband; While Zoe effortlessly strutted the lush green lawn in a pair of stilt-like platform sandals that became a topic of guest conversation.
Style Section L.A.: Kate Bosworth, Serena Williams and Rachel Zoe Celebrate Burberry Beauty in Beverly Hills Style Section L.A. 2010
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Nylon Fashion Director Dani Stahl, who was hosting a Lia Sophia jewelry event at the Sunset Tower Hotel later that evening, sported a cool copper headband; While Zoe effortlessly strutted the lush green lawn in a pair of stilt-like platform sandals that became a topic of guest conversation.
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Crabs and prawns pick their way over the yielding mud on stilt-like legs; sea spiders creep over sponges raised on delicate stalks above the slime.
Undersea (historical) Rachel Louise Carson 2007
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No matter how you try her little stilt-like legs cant support her huge head of hair.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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No matter how you try her little stilt-like legs cant support her huge head of hair.
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The dressing table stretched crazily before me on stilt-like legs.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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The dressing table stretched crazily before me on stilt-like legs.
The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004
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With its tail erect, and stilt-like legs, it may be seen every now and then popping from one bush to another with uncommon quickness.
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Imagine a brittle tennis ball stuck full of long slender needles, many tapering to microscopic keenness at the points, climbing stiffly along the edges of rocks by a few of the stilt-like needles, and a very fair figure of the ECHINUS is presented.
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