Do you think ladies’ eyebrows can communicate as well?” she asked.
“No, they don’t have sufficient thicketry,” he said with authority.
“Thicketry?”
“Yes, that is the official term.

Anne Gracie

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Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

Nancy B. Brewer

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This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

Bailey Bristol

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Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up the dust off the street plod lazily in the clear, cool night. And in dark corners where people forget to look, the goons come out.

Bailey Bristol

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Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess

Bailey Bristol

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[Jess]"... you were wonderful. Magnificent. Incomparable. Unparalleled. Incredible."

"Oh, stop it!" Addie grinned and blushed, and backed a step with each word, as Jess advanced toward her with each accolade. But on the third step, her back made contact with the ivy wall, and Jess kept moving toward her until he'd pressed her into its soft, green embrace. Then he moved another inch until his Sunday boots straddled her Sunday pumps.

Bailey Bristol

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Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime.

Bailey Bristol

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I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.

Andrea Zuvich

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Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

Andrea Zuvich

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i really like reading books

Dale Carnegie

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