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I keep my glasses—the perfect martini receptacles, heavy and thin-stemmed, with exquisite rims—in the freezer, and sip them very slowly while still managing to make the last swallow cold.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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I keep my glasses—the perfect martini receptacles, heavy and thin-stemmed, with exquisite rims—in the freezer, and sip them very slowly while still managing to make the last swallow cold.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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They were thin-stemmed but flourishing, their leaves delicate with slightly brownish tips.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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They were thin-stemmed but flourishing, their leaves delicate with slightly brownish tips.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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They were thin-stemmed but flourishing, their leaves delicate with slightly brownish tips.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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I like the understated elegance of the restaurant: Its van Gogh palette of yellow and blue, the thin-stemmed wineglasses and the polished new mirrors along one wall that make the room feel larger.
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The thin-stemmed glasses were all set up, full to the brim, there for the taking.
Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003
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An eight-year-old can be trusted to carry eight things to or from the table, including fragile, thin-stemmed wineglasses.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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An eight-year-old can be trusted to carry eight things to or from the table, including fragile, thin-stemmed wineglasses.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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One man pulled a thin-stemmed pipe and a long splinter from a pocket.
Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995
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