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head erect laughing mouth a peculiar
Marius came in with head erect, laughing mouth, a peculiar light over his face, a smooth forehead, and a flashing eye.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

his eyes like moons and Pg
But now I finds him in the morning with his eyes like moons and [Pg 256] his skin white and shiny, and never a cheep has he given the whole blessed night, with me laying next door, and it open, and a light sleeper at all times, Mrs Wace, ma'am."
— from The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan

He evidently liked Mr Ashton probably
He evidently liked Mr. Ashton, probably because of their common interest in Oriental art.
— from The Green God by Frederic Arnold Kummer

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