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A woman with a creamy voice, and finished in _alto rilievo_, would be a variety in the boarding-house, -- a little more marrow and a little less sinew than our landlady and her daughter and the bombazine-clad female, all of whom are of the turkey-drumstick style of organization.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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A woman with a creamy voice, and finished in alto rilievo, would be a variety in the boarding-house, -- a little more marrow and a little less sinew than our landlady and her daughter and the bombazine-clad female, all of whom are of the turkey-drumstick style of organization.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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A woman with a creamy voice, and finished in alto rilievo, would be a variety in the boarding-house, -- a little more marrow and a little less sinew than our landlady and her daughter and the bombazine-clad female, all of whom are of the turkey-drumstick style of organization.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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