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  • In comparison to the more modest places of worship being established on the outskirts of the City, Lauderdale Road has an understated kind of grandeur, with a white-banded red brick exterior, brown marble columns inside and Moorish-domed ark.

    September « 2008 « Squares of Wheat 2008

  • In comparison to the more modest places of worship being established on the outskirts of the City, Lauderdale Road has an understated kind of grandeur, with a white-banded red brick exterior, brown marble columns inside and Moorish-domed ark.

    Dangoorland « Squares of Wheat 2008

  • Nearby the enormous mesa, Dowa Yalanne, upheaved itself, two thousand feet high, more than two miles in length, sculptured red rock nearly sheer, white-banded through the middle, up and up to a thin woodland.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • There were a few high places on the peak of Linda's soul, and on one of them homed a small flock of notes of rapture; notes as sweet as the voice of the white-banded mockingbird of Argentina.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • But I never heard the wonderful white-banded mocking-bird, which is said by Hudson, who knew well the birds of both South America and Europe, to be the song-king of them all.

    I. The Start 1914

  • As I plodded through underbrush to rejoin my company, I came across some white-banded fellows who, with fixed bayonets and heavy breathing, had evidently just been charging.

    At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

  • And just as she had stooped to pick one -- it was no flower, but -- Tryst's white-banded face!

    The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900

  • And just as she had stooped to pick one -- it was no flower, but -- Tryst's white-banded face!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • A perfume as of rare incense was wafted from the folds of her veil, they said, and a pale aureole of light shone about her white-banded forehead, and her eyes ---- Ah! who that met their look could ever forget those eyes?

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • There were a few high places on the peak of Linda's soul, and on one of them homed a small flock of notes of rapture; notes as sweet as the voice of the white-banded mockingbird of Argentina.

    Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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