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  • You go to church (maybe pretty often, knowing it) and watch a wedding go by with the white-silk confection sitting so close to the button-busting groom midst a roaring sea of happy car-horns, knowing it.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • Her movements were those of a virgin, a white-silk girl.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • I admire the white-silk chiffon, and then get busy trying to capture the flowers embroidered in metallic thread, and the rhinestone and bead trim.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • I admire the white-silk chiffon, and then get busy trying to capture the flowers embroidered in metallic thread, and the rhinestone and bead trim.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • I admire the white-silk chiffon, and then get busy trying to capture the flowers embroidered in metallic thread, and the rhinestone and bead trim.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • I admire the white-silk chiffon, and then get busy trying to capture the flowers embroidered in metallic thread, and the rhinestone and bead trim.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • We made her a long white-silk serge double-breasted coat, which she wore and wore and absolutely loved, and finally replaced with the same style made in a very, very pale pink.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • I confess that I was somewhat nervous at the awfulness of the occasion, but I reflected that I was powerfully protected; so side by side, both in full-dress, white ties, white-silk waistcoats, and all, we came down that regal flight.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • He felt in the pockets of the little white-silk coat which he usually wore, thinking that he might unconsciously have placed it there at the end of the last game, but his coat pockets were empty.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Given a choice, I'd give you a fragment of the violent rape of a sweet little white-silk slavegirl on Furcadia, or perhaps a taste of the pain War went through with Alyssa ...

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001

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