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  • A chance blow from any one of those four enormous floundering hoofs could have put out and quenched forever the light and sparkle of that superb, white-bodied, fire-animated woman.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • Davy did not, even though he shuddered and looked thin and white-bodied and miserable.

    Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

  • All along its length grew willows, and in a few places white-bodied sycamores.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • A chance blow from any one of those four enormous floundering hoofs could have put out and quenched forever the light and sparkle of that superb, white-bodied, fire-animated woman.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • He was an atavism; of the race of those white-bodied, ferocious sea-kings that drank deep and died in the din of battle.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • She paused a moment white-bodied and white-limbed but dark and velvet-armed, her full neck and oval head rising rich and almost black above, with its deep-lighted eyes and crown of silent darkling hair.

    The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

  • It was Rodin's _Penseur_, not in grim and stately bronze, but in a soft-eyed and white-bodied child, groping his stumbling way toward the border-land of consciousness, staring out on

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • You saw them tear open iron shutters, batter down doors, smash windows and do other things to make a path for the writhing, white-bodied, yellow-nosed snakes that uncoiled from the engine and were carried wriggling in where the flames lapped along baseboard and floor-beams.

    Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

  • He also was permitted to satisfy himself that the Frenchmen were white-bodied as well as white-faced; and being assured that there was nothing to fear from these strange visitors, he signalled to two black women, who had remained hidden during the earlier part of the interview.

    Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903

  • If he told her to do it, she would go into the stream, and dance and splash -- realizing that old dream -- the white-bodied nymph of the wood for him to leap at and carry off into the gloom.

    The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902

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