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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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And just as she had stooped to pick one -- it was no flower, but -- Tryst's white-banded face!
The Freelands John Galsworthy 1900
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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
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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
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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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