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...silken sheen like any queen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

Once we're safe in her silken snare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVE AND FORGET. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...lace and silken sheen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

...running for President, though, but only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEFT. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

SYLPH-LIKE, all silken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WOMAN'S DRESS. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

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