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Her silken voice, honey-sweet, helped smooth over the spikes of rage
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Pottery vases and dishes trailing ribbons and silken cord stood before effigies of tulips and lilies in pink, white and turquoise behind rows of ornate glassware balanced on the shelves
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In the dream the Paint she saw was on a hill over-looking the main herd, and the wind was blowing hard, and the silken longhaired horse was reveling in the cool breeze
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Without thinking she raised her hand and began to stroke his chest, running her fingers thru the silken hair
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Within the room, Brontes rested on a mattress covered in silken red sheets
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He wrapped one hand around her silken hair, lifting her mouth to his
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Rorten and Eleisha had joined forces, along with Lady Miranda – short and slim with bright blue eyes and silken black hair – she came with over four hundred soldiers in all
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The woman was Torvellen, typically tall and slender with large dark eyes, honey-brown skin and long silken black hair in thin braids tied with coloured beads
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Gorgeous State umbrellas, enormous kinkassies or wardrums, brass-studded chairs, beautifully carved stools, European and native swords, native spears, Ashanti daggers and knives, executioners' blades and torture instruments, brass studded cases, leather fetish caps, silken and cotton cloths, execution stools with recent blood stains, valuable old English chinaware, common table knives, large glass vases, carved wooden sandals, silk and gingham pillows of down and soft cotton, a few tusks, ivory pieces for playing “po” and drafts, a few bottles of brandy, common blunderbusses, old flint locks, a few Sniders, and so on ad infinitum
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short skirts of silken gauze, in which golden sparkles appeared as they
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Every rifle from fort and entrenchment blazed at once at the silken globe; the artillery re-opened, and bullets and shells poured through the tree-tops, dealing death and destruction among the men in the crowded trail
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In single rooms fifty persons were sheltered, ladies in silken robes and beggars in rags
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The younger man remained outside of the silken ropes of the actual lineup; but came up to proffer his dad a cup of coffee from the courtesy urn by the window
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Turning, she saw her hostess dressed in silken pants with a colorful floral top and a scarf about her neck, the ends of which flowed over her shoulder on the light breeze
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I closed my eyes at the silken caress, soft and hard at once
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Standing once more in his own palatial rooms, he pulled the drawer open and removed the folded, silken rabbit skin from its depths
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But at the far end of the silken ropes that would have been appropriate in a museum or a bank, there was a space he could easily get through
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The biggest was a v-shaped formation, which looked like a club, due to the striped colours of their knee-length silken t-shirts
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Princess Constance wept in a chair, silken tresses covering her face, wet and slick with tears
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I let the water fold me in its silken arms
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Una went into the closet and shut the door, went down on her knees and pressed her face against the soft silken folds
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that?” said Tifa softly, the long fringe of her silken hair hiding one
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He pushed away the lock of silken hair from her face and gave her one more hard, searching kiss
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A silken strand tethers you to the tack
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Silken in the arms of the other, together they are one gorgeous struggle Off I go, with this I’m right
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Their eyes met as he continued his ministrations over her silken
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He laughed, and his laughter was like the purr of a sword sliding from a silken sheath
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Most of them were half naked, but the garments they wore were fine; gold-braided jackets, satin girdles, silken breeches, tattered, stained with tar and blood, vied with pieces of silver-chased armor
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In her chamber whose ceiling was a lapis lazuli dome, whose marble floor was littered with rare furs, and whose walls were lavish with golden friezework, ten girls, daughters of nobles, their slender limbs weighted with gem-crusted armlets and anklets, slumbered on velvet couches about the royal bed with its golden dais and silken canopy
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But princess Yasmela lolled not on that silken bed
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Thus objurgated, Yasmela allowed the girl to garb her in the light sleeveless silk shirt, over which was slipped a silken tunic, bound at the waist by a wide velvet girdle
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Wrapping a voluminous silken cloak about her lithe figure and donning a velvet cap from which depended a filmy veil, she passed hurriedly through the corridors and approached a bronze door where a dozen spearmen gaped at her as she passed through
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Its rider, under the silken canopy of the seat, was a slim, silk-clad figure, at the sight of which the populace, always mindful of royalty, threw up its leather cap and cheered wildly
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But a clean tanging wind bellied her silken sail, and as a wild swan cleaves the sky to her nest, she sped seaward, flames mounting higher and higher from her deck to lick at the mast and envelop the figure that lay lapped in scarlet on the shining pyre
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But they had not crossed the first chamber on their new route, when the rustle of a silken hanging brought them about suddenly
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From it depended a silken cord
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‘A connoisseurs choice Madame…I’m sure that you will derive much pleasure from these unique creations!…’ He placed the boxes in a silken bag bearing the Company logo and offered this deferentially to her
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She shook off the silken swathings and held it up—the head of a young man, the features frozen in a convulsion as if death had come in the midst of inhuman agony
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Jehungir clapped his hands, and an impassive Kushite eunuch, an image of shining ebony in silken pantaloons, bowed before him and went to do his bidding
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Chunder Shan, struggling frantically to his feet, saw the man poise an instant on the sill in a flutter of silken skirts and white limbs that was his royal captive, and heard his fierce, exultant snarl: 'Now dare to hang my men!' and then Conan leaped to the parapet and was gone
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Her cloth-of-gold slippers were in tatters, her robes and silken under-garments torn to shreds that scarcely held together decently
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With a deep bow he gave into her hands a small leathern bag, and drew about her shoulders a silken cloak
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With dead hands fumbling his silken coat;
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Instead of a skirt she wore short, wide-legged silk breeches, which ceased a hand's breadth short of her knees, and were upheld by a wide silken sash worn as a girdle
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Then for a space there was no sound in the chamber except the whistle and crackle of hard-woven silken cords on naked flesh
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He arranged me on a couch and pulled in front of me the table made of silken pale yellow wood grained like bird’s eyes
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Yet there they were—gold breast-plates set with concentric circles of small gems, gilded sandals, and a short silken skirt upheld by a jeweled girdle
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The body still lay as he had first seen it, silent, motionless, in breast-plates of jeweled gold, gilded sandals and silken skirt
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There was a soft silken breeze here, it carried the scent of the forest and fields and I saw spiders float by on wings of their own webbing
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Now through the yelling, cursing lines rode the lords of the conquerors—Strabonus, with his broad dark face and crafty eyes; Amalrus, slender, fastidious, treacherous, dangerous as a cobra; and the lean vulture Tsotha-lanti, clad only in silken robes, his great black eyes glittering from a face that was like that of a bird of prey
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Stars still glimmered palely in the western sky, but long pink streamers stretched along the eastern horizon, and against them the dragon banner of Nemedia flung out its billowing silken folds
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They obeyed, and laid the helpless giant on the furs, and spread a silken cloak over him
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Over all they put the silken surcoat with the royal lion worked in gold upon the breast, and they girt him with a broad gold-buckled belt which supported a jewel-hilted broadsword in a cloth-of-gold scabbard
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Men moved in the shadows, dark, wiry men, clad in red, silken loincloths
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Only late at night, after the pleasure boats with their fair occupants lounging on silken cushions in the flare of torches held by slaves had left the river, before dawn brought the hurrying fisherboats, did the girl venture out
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Conan sat on a silken divan in a rich chamber whose filmy curtains the warm breeze billowed
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A page in jagged silken jupon and hose came forward inquiringly
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From one of the black arches emerged a tall, powerful figure in sandals and silken loin-cloth, with a wide mantle trailing from his shoulders
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And at their head, the spies swore, rode a giant figure in black armor, with the royal lion of Aquilonia worked in gold upon the breast of his rich silken surcoat
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Imagination reconstructs the scene—the black-haired chief, in his tiger-skins and necklace of human teeth, squatting on the dirt floor of the wattle hut, listening intently to the eloquence of the priest, who probably sat on a carven, skin-covered block of mahogany provided in his honor—clad in the silken robes of a Nemedian priest, gesturing with his slender white hands as he expounded the eternal rights and justices which were the truths of Mitra
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"Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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"That man was a stockbroker-- he gets a silken robe and golden staff but I, a minister, only get a cotton robe and wooden staff? How can this be?"
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” He reached and took a skein of something–a fabric that tugged on my hair, and the light, and the silken feel of water on my skin, and my very thoughts––and he wound it up with another
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After stooping to her feet in passion, having conquered her heart with love, he found his way back on her silken slopes with the labial support, and rested his head on the slab of her midriff
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Well, if only I sit a little tight on their files, won’t they cough up enough for me to maintain a harem? As Appa Rao has his guest-house all for me, can’t I look forward to having horny rides on silken curves? That is for sure
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And the silken hand that was on
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he halted as he remembered the words on the yellow silken handkerchief
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She cast a silken square out into the arena and when it landed in the dust, the gladiators began their grand charade
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The priestess was called upon again to drop another silken square and as it floated into the arena, the Decanus charged at Juko
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The colour was the royal blue of the ocean and it seemed composed of some light, silken material
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woods, she would have gladly embraced the silken cocoon of unawareness, but now she
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‘As for the floor, it was covered by many types of smooth, silken Persian carpets while superb paintings covered the walls… And the exquisite small fountain in the middle of the room with the calming sound of its tinkling water seemed to reflect all the colours of the rainbow! Not to mention the enormous, unique, regal chandeliers made of pure crystals
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closer, kiss red haired silken curls at the top of his
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” He sat down on their bed and lay down on the silken sheets
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he said, rolling on top of her as his hair tumbled over his shoulders, covering her like a silken curtain
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bits of silken thread
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Was it possible that she herself would someday be like that? So old, that everybody who was fond of her was dead, and she dragging round hotels because her servants were dead too, and she didn't like new ones? Or, even worse, perhaps be in the clutches of a companion, and the companion, when she was bored and cross, bullying her? _Noble, lovely little Fanny_, whose life had ringed her round like a wreath of flowers, and all her flanks--odd how Conderley's quotations stuck,--with silken garlands drest; could it really be that to this complexion--his phrase again,--she would come at last?
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Their silken hair worn up with curls cascading down their necks, while their rose, lavender, jasmine, and gardenia perfumes wafted through my dormant memory
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Marcus drew in his breath as lavender petals clung to the silken material that hugged me like a second skin
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I dried off then slipped into silken undergarments that Marcus would never see or touch
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Eric fought against the invisible restraints, his heart pounding so hard he could barely hear the silken voice over it
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He marveled at the silken texture; even her hair seemed too velvety and luminous to be real
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I could guess that if I had a fine silken rope that it might be possible to obtain the same amount of swing by puffing breaths of air against the end of the track
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The silken smile played so subtly upon her lips; her eyes remained steadfast on him
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Its teeth clamped tight upon the silken cloth as it shredded it, tearing it in frustration from its realization that is was not flesh, giving her a chance to resurface and catch a breath
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He told her to return to the tower the following night, bringing with her a long rope, some string, some silken thread, a beetle, and a pot of honey
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The minister directed her to tie the silken thread firmly around the beetle's leg, then to smear its feelers with a drop of honey and place it on the tower wall, with its head pointing upward
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Attracted by the scent of the honey, the beetle crawled slowly up the wall, drawing the silken thread behind it
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Hours later, it reached the top, and the minister caught it and untied the silken thread
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The silken thread is the motion of breathing the string is the vital energy, and the rope is the mind
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theend by insisting that he be hanged with a silken cord, as
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“Is it too much to hope for,” he began in his dangerous, silken voice, “That you would have the sense that God gave a field rabbit?”
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Panes became visible, as did enormous swags of material, like movie-theater curtains only bigger, held back by coils of silken cord thicker than any rope any of them had ever seen
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As she got closer to her bed, she noticed it had been turned down, and a soft silken pink nightgown was
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The Loremaster wiped his nose on a handkerchief, held the little silken square aloft for a moment, then let it fall
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Where other slaves were industriously rubbing its metal flanks with silver sand it was already beginning to gleam in the sun with the silken organic sheen of young bronze
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There once more, through the panels opening into these Caribbean waters ten meters below the surface of the waves, I found so many fascinating exhibits to describe in my daily notes! Among other zoophytes there were Portuguese men–of–war known by the name Physalia pelagica, like big, oblong bladders with a pearly sheen, spreading their membranes to the wind, letting their blue tentacles drift like silken threads; to the eye delightful jellyfish, to the touch actual nettles that ooze a corrosive liquid
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A tall young man, with light hair, clear gray eyes, and thin and compressed lips, dressed in a blue coat with beautifully carved gold buttons, a white neckcloth, and a tortoiseshell eye-glass suspended by a silken thread, and which, by an effort of the superciliary and zygomatic muscles, he fixed in his eye, entered, with a half-official air, without smiling or speaking
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The clinking and rattling of the glasses and pewter pots as they were being washed, and the gurgling noise made by the beer as it poured into the drinking vessels from the taps of the beer engine, whose handles were almost incessantly manipulated by the barman, the Old Dear and the glittering landlady, whose silken blouse, bejewelled hair, ears, neck and fingers scintillated gloriously in the blaze of the gaslight
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He took the greatest care of his fair silken hair and moustache and used perfume discreetly on his handkerchief
