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Now I'm hanging out in my sweetly-scented apartment, grading papers in track pants and blindingly bright lipstick.
Archive 2007-10-01 Flavia 2007
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Now I'm hanging out in my sweetly-scented apartment, grading papers in track pants and blindingly bright lipstick.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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Rocco had kyped not one, but two full bottles of Peach Schnapps from his parents, and the four of us sat in that sweltering garage, too afraid to go inside lest Rocco's parents smell our sweetly-scented breath, drinking this stuff in huge, sugary gulps.
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The walls, in place of pictures or any other production of art, were decorated and relieved by suspended bunches of fresh-gathered and sweetly-scented flowering shrubs, the most choice indigenous produce of the neighbouring bush.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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On plants which have hitherto displayed only masculine characteristics, small, pale yellow, sweetly-scented flowers on long, loosely-branched axillary panicles, may appear partially or fully developed female organs which result in fructification, and such fruit is ostentatiously displayed.
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The Companion snorted, a great gust of warm, sweetly-scented breath replacing the storm for a moment.
And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997
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She reveled in the sweetly-scented soap, giving her hair a good wash that left it smelling faintly of violets, and rinsed herself off.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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And he was singing to a bowerful of empty-headed sweetly-scented marriage-bait, wasting a Gift that Vanyel, at fifteen, would willingly have sacrificed a leg to gain.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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And he was singing to a bowerful of empty-headed sweetly-scented marriage-bait, wasting a Gift that Vanyel, at fifteen, would willingly have sacrificed a leg to gain.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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-- This hardy perennial bears tall, handsome spikes of sweetly-scented, peach-coloured flowers in May.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
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