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1  Surreptitiously he extracted a small silver box.
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2  Red and silver, blue and yellow gave off warmth and sweetness.
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3  But, she was crying, had we met before the salmon leapt like a bar of silver.
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4  There were pools of red and purple in the shade; flashes of silver in the sun.
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5  They slid on, in and out between the stalks, silver; pink; gold; splashed; streaked; pied.
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6  The leaning graceful trees with black bracelets circling the silver bark were distant about a ship's length.
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7  Now issued black man in fuzzy wig; coffee-coloured ditto in silver turban; they signify presumably the League of.
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8  Red Admirals gluttonously absorbed richness from dish cloths, cabbage whites drank icy coolness from silver paper.
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9  And they too were delighted; now they could follow in her wake and leave the silver and dun shades that led to the heart of silence.
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10  Cardboard crowns, swords made of silver paper, turbans that were sixpenny dish cloths, lay on the grass or were flung on the bushes.
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11  So did they all--hand glasses, tin cans, scraps of scullery glass, harness room glass, and heavily embossed silver mirrors--all stopped.
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12  Under the thick plate of green water, glazed in their self-centred world, fish swam--gold, splashed with white, streaked with black or silver.
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13  She took the little silver cream jug and let the smooth fluid curl luxuriously into her coffee, to which she added a shovel full of brown sugar candy.
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14  And turning, she strode to the actors, undressing, down in the hollow, where butterflies feasted upon swords of silver paper; where the dish cloths in the shadow made pools of yellow.
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15  Her line had got tangled; she had given over, and had watched him with the stream rushing between his legs, casting, casting--until, like a thick ingot of silver bent in the middle, the salmon had leapt, had been caught, and she had loved him.
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16  In her yellow robe, leaning, with a pillar to support her, a silver arrow in her hand, and a feather in her hair, she led the eye up, down, from the curve to the straight, through glades of greenery and shades of silver, dun and rose into silence.
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17  Mrs. Giles Oliver drew the comb through the thick tangle of hair which, after giving the matter her best attention, she had never had shingled or bobbed; and lifted the heavily embossed silver brush that had been a wedding present and had its uses in impressing chambermaids in hotels.
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