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  • Nox's dark brows rose, accentuating his gray eyes.†   (source)
  • Instead, the pants just accentuate the frailty of his frame.†   (source)
  • Tyrion replied with a shrug that accentuated the twist of his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Instead of the old brown cardigan I'd seen so many times, she was wearing a red V-neck sweater that somehow accentuated the color of her light blue eyes.†   (source)
  • Now it looked boldly sensual, with an accentuated bow of the full purplish lips.†   (source)
  • The short hair accentuated his features, specifically his too-close-together beady eyes, which did not stand up well to accentuation.†   (source)
  • To accentuate his widow's peak and tame his cowlick, Samuel Heckler insisted on combing his hair straight back.†   (source)
  • A hint of lace had been added at her cleavage, accentuating the fact that, at fourteen, Peony had already developed curves that Cinder couldn't begin to hope for.†   (source)
  • The candlelight accentuated her rouged cheeks and painted mouth.†   (source)
  • I'd always thought that Danes were large and blonde, but Saffi was smallish and brunette, with a fairy-tale quality that was accentuated by her glittery stage makeup in the professional photo I'd seen.†   (source)
  • Her eyes are accentuated by the blue shirt peeking out where the jacket's zipper ends.†   (source)
  • The star sapphire cast a rosy light on her, accentuating skin the same deep shade as Ajihad's.†   (source)
  • My next girlfriend was Marina, a girl from Lomas who had one of the highest, peroxided teases on her head with blonde streaks that accentuated her dark face.†   (source)
  • Finally when his mood seemed to be turning the corner, she dressed me in an ice-blue kimono with multicolored ribbons embroidered at the hem—with only a touch of Western-style makeup to "accentuate the angles," as she put it—and sent me to him bearing a present of a pearl-white kitten that had cost her I don't know how much money.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he wants to accentuate the comic or ironic incongruity between the brevity of the sexual act and its consequences.†   (source)
  • I just don't think Mr. Snyder would go for it: I say, raising my voice a bit louder than necessary to accentuate the noise factor Mr. Snyder would be up against.†   (source)
  • Her skin seemed to be tightening around her bones, accentuating every vein until you could almost see the blood pumping through them.†   (source)
  • She wore a white shirtwaist and black skirt that accentuated her trim figure, and she was seated beside a window, her hair candescent with sunlight.†   (source)
  • All the while I was talking to the reporter, I kept our instructions in mind: Accentuate the positive—don't complain too much.†   (source)
  • The god had changed into a young woman with long red hair and dazzling eyes, an emerald green evening gown accentuating her figure.†   (source)
  • She was looking exceptionally pretty, her black hair held by a shamrock-green band and a tight Basque blouse that accentuated her firm, up thrust breasts.†   (source)
  • The movement was accentuated by their height above the deck, and Putin made excuses to go below.†   (source)
  • Blanca's natural tendency to isolation and solitude became accentuated.†   (source)
  • The stereotypes almost always accentuated the positive.†   (source)
  • The thick mustache with twisted ends accentuated the sharp angles of his cheekbones.†   (source)
  • And her diminutive stature, at four and a half feet tall, is accentuated by a congenital cleft foot that causes her to limp.†   (source)
  • Her short black skirt shows off her incredible legs, and her shirt is tight, accentuating her small but perky chichis.†   (source)
  • Her cheeks had a Martian tint cast on them by the cobalt-blue water below, and the hint of green in her eyes—unusual for an Indian—was accentuated.†   (source)
  • Onto these streets, graduating seniors are about to spill, accentuating the divide between a few haves looking forward to summer preparations for college and a vast army of have-nots, looking at a first summer of official, out-of-school, get-a-job reality.†   (source)
  • Her face reddened, accentuating the acne, the pimples and small scabs.†   (source)
  • She could not understand why he accentuated the obvious with the solemnity of a Columbus who has just sighted land.†   (source)
  • Given the location and timing of this change—dense urban areas where Afro-American activism was gathering strength—the most likely cause of the explosion in distinctively black names was the Black Power movement, which sought to accentuate African culture and fight claims of black inferiority.†   (source)
  • He knew that I loathed his homeland and family, and I saw no reason to accentuate that fact by communicating the intensity of my joy that the vacation had ended.†   (source)
  • Jackie Kennedy's bare, tanned shoulders accentuate the pink color of her strapless Oleg Cassini gown.†   (source)
  • The high, thin heels are made for accentuating legs while sitting cross-legged.†   (source)
  • 468 Jefferson's height was accentuated by a long blue frock coat.†   (source)
  • She had a dancer's carriage and her closecropped hair only seemed to accentuate her long neck and elegant features.†   (source)
  • If the Augurs made my armor to accentuate my body's power, they made Hel's to accentuate her beauty.†   (source)
  • We seek not resemblances but differences, choose the most accentuated differences because they're the most striking and also the most instructive.†   (source)
  • The woman stared at him, the bridge of hostile silence accentuated by the hum of the large, dimly lit, candelabraed room and the intermittent eruptions of quiet laughter from the nearby tables.†   (source)
  • The contact, however casual, only served to accentuate it.†   (source)
  • The height of the mound only accentuated his stature as the Regiomontanos stared up at his incoming pitches.†   (source)
  • Accentuate the negative!†   (source)
  • Her hair was parted on the right and came down to her shoulders, accentuating the mole by her lips.†   (source)
  • In short, Rwanda and Burundi accentuated each other's path toward mass violence.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist had assumed that she was not really interested in fashion, but that she tried instead to accentuate her own individuality.†   (source)
  • The cold light accentuated his bird-like features, and they thought that if the world were just, he would be surprised and rewarded, and that merely by moving his arms gently back and forth he would fly like a bird over the mountains and into the moonlight.†   (source)
  • I kept speeding along on the blacktop road that was accentuated by overhanging, gnarled black branches.†   (source)
  • The dry voice from the darkness concentrates on the formal properties of the compositions, the arrangement of cloth in folds to accentuate circularity, the rendering of textures, the uses of perspective in archways and in the tiles underfoot.†   (source)
  • The sun streamed in from the windows behind him, and shadows lay over his face and accentuated the lines of his cheeks and jaw.†   (source)
  • The sheer quantity of Heidi's flesh accentuated just how white she was.†   (source)
  • But his narrow black trousers looked empty in the seat, and the Y of his suspenders accentuated the weary, burdened posture of an ordinary laboring man.†   (source)
  • Honey, I just think maybe you want to consider finding ways to ...to not accentuate your neck, you know?†   (source)
  • Four oil lamps flickered about the yard, their dancing light serving primarily to accentuate the shadows that lay upon most of the shrines.†   (source)
  • Accentuated by her pallor and white hair, her dark brown eyes appear black.†   (source)
  • She was wearing one of those scrappy tank tops that accentuated her tan, and all I could think was that she was the sexiest woman I'd ever seen.   (source)
    accentuated = emphasized or drew attention to
  • The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.   (source)
    accentuates = emphasizes
  • She wore a blue gingham dress, rimmed at throat and shoulders with a white edging that accentuated her tan.   (source)
    accentuated = emphasized or drew attention to
  • Grinning accentuated all the new lines in her face.†   (source)
  • On the downside, the sunlight was so harsh it accentuated every imperfection.†   (source)
  • Olivetti leaned toward her, as if to accentuate his height advantage.†   (source)
  • The illuminated dome only accentuated the significance of what was truly at stake tonight.†   (source)
  • It was plain, made of dark wool, accentuating the whiteness of his skin and hair.†   (source)
  • Camerlegno Ventresca possessed a grit that seemed to accentuate his conviction rather than cloud it.†   (source)
  • The silence between them accentuated the sound of the scraping bumper.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno turned, shadows accentuating the pain on his face.†   (source)
  • Night seemed to be falling quickly now, accentuated by the musty tint of the stained-glass windows.†   (source)
  • Dark lipstick accentuated her full lips.†   (source)
  • Two of them were quite wide and, in my tiny studio, their size was accentuated.†   (source)
  • Hylla frowned, which accentuated the white scar across her brow.†   (source)
  • Like the night before, tonight she was wearing a sundress that accentuated her figure.†   (source)
  • His gray hair was close-cropped, his beard cut square to accentuate his hardened weathered face.†   (source)
  • I was also a good girl, and I knew how to dress and what to say to accentuate that.†   (source)
  • The tension was accentuated by d'Anjou's silence.†   (source)
  • These imperfections served to accentuate the distance between the past and the present.†   (source)
  • He wore a white T-shirt whose sleeves were rolled up to accentuate the small bellies of his biceps.†   (source)
  • As the air currents buffeted her body, her clothes clung, accentuating her slender torso and small breasts.†   (source)
  • The crypt's low ceiling and soft uplighting accentuated the robust girth of the forty Doric columns required to support the vast stone floor directly overhead.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the guys stood just beyond them, looking as if they were trying to pose in a way that accentuated the size of their arms or sculpted abs and acting as if they didn't notice the girls at all.†   (source)
  • It was perfect how the dark-colored light from the chancel threw exactly the right amount of illumination upon her—there was just enough light to accentuate the scarlet glare of her dress, but not enough light to make her headlessness too apparent.†   (source)
  • The sound of the chenda mushroomed over the temple, accentuating the silence of the encompassing night.†   (source)
  • The short hair accentuated his features, specifically his too-close-together beady eyes, which did not stand up well to accentuation.†   (source)
  • His pale eyes accentuated his look of a sailor and his small mustache looked like the fur of a squirrel.†   (source)
  • The only lighting was a string of intermittent construction bulbs that did little more than accentuate the tunnel's impossible length.†   (source)
  • But his sedentary life, which accentuated his cheekbones and concentrated the sparkle of his eyes, did not increase his weight or alter the parsimony of his character, but, on the contrary, it hardened on his lips the straight line of solitary meditation and implacable decision.†   (source)
  • Overcome by an exploratory delirium comparable only to that of his great-grandfather when he was searching for the route of inventions, Aureliano Segundo lost the last layers of fat that he had left and the old resemblance to his twin brother was becoming accentuated again, not only because of his slim figure, but also because of the distant air and the withdrawn attitude.†   (source)
  • His dark hair was slicked back with oil, accentuating an arrow-like widow's peak that divided his jutting brow and preceded him like the prow of a battleship.†   (source)
  • His two days of fasting had accentuated his musculature, and he could not help but admire that which he had become.†   (source)
  • As if to accentuate the collegiate atmosphere, two longhaired hippies hurled a Frisbee back and forth while enjoying Mahler's Fourth Symphony blaring from a dorm window.†   (source)
  • She could have been a Roman goddess, enshrouded in her white terrycloth robe, the drawstring cinched tight, accentuating her slender curves.†   (source)
  • His shrouded figure was draped in a pure white caftan that accentuated his tall slender body — very tall for a Zhongguo ren, nearly six feet in height, perhaps.†   (source)
  • But the endless washing had softened and thinned the denim, and she was aware of how they accentuated her figure.†   (source)
  • The amber light from the dying sun accentuated the planes of Roran's face; somewhat to Eragon's surprise, he saw the beginnings of lines and wrinkles on his cousin's brow and around his eyes.†   (source)
  • It was called an accentuation, a positive statement making clear that the underground was responsible for the action.†   (source)
  • Like him, she was wearing jeans, but the creamy blouse she wore accentuated the sun-browned tint of her skin.†   (source)
  • With shadows accentuating her every movement, Travis watched as Gabby crossed her arms, reaching for the hem of her shirt.†   (source)
  • The drakon roared as if to accentuate the point, filling the air with more pine-ginger poison, which would have made an excellent car-freshener scent.†   (source)
  • Then the queen beckoned to another curious member of her entourage: a tall gaunt stick of a man, his height accentuated by an outlandish three-tiered hat of purple felt.†   (source)
  • But on his best days, Reverend King takes his oration to an even higher level than Kennedy by adding the techniques learned from countless Sunday mornings speaking from the pulpit: thunder and whisper as his voice rises and falls, the changing pace as the reverend speeds up and slows down to make the listener hang on his every word, the stretching or shortening of syllables to accentuate a point.†   (source)
  • He does-and everyone can see: the boy near the front of the line, the long gown accentuating his height, girls on all sides.†   (source)
  • The cement walls of the barn accentuated the freezing cold that pierced through us, bringing involuntary shivers.†   (source)
  • I noticed that he always accentuated the curved line under Veronica's breast, particularly when compared with Betty's.†   (source)
  • Point one: Accentuate the obvious.†   (source)
  • She was a tall woman, statuesque, actually, her figure tapered, the swell of her breasts accentuated by the sheer, close-fitting fabric of a long white dress that heightened the tan of her skin.†   (source)
  • Shiny black tight-fitting, ill-fitting trousers quivered maniacally on spindly legs below black leather jackets over soiled white silk shirts open to the waist, while each head was shaved around its skull at the temple line, each face grotesque, heavily made up to accentuate its essentially passive Oriental character.†   (source)
  • Their Kurdish clothing made them appear as wide as they were tall, and that effect was accentuated by even wider bustles than the ones I was wearing.†   (source)
  • The darkly tanned skin, the wide shoulders accentuated by tightly rolled-up sleeves ...shoulders that floated in place above a tapered waist, beneath which strong legs moved swiftly, like an animal's, a cat's.†   (source)
  • I wanted to scream in agony from the pain in my back that was accentuated by the effort of standing on tiptoe, but I could not give in to my own hurt now.†   (source)
  • The mountains of the New Territories rose ominously, the moonlight glancing off their peaks and accentuating their beauty, but also saying: This is where you stop.†   (source)
  • He was dark, with a touch of gray here and there, a few creases accentuating a ruggedness of jawline and cheekbone, the beginnings of a bulge above his belt.†   (source)
  • I knew that Star enjoyed jeweled costumes; I knew she liked them naughty—not in the sense of crowding the taboos, there weren't any—but provocative, gilding the lily, accentuating what hardly needs it.†   (source)
  • His high forehead is hers accentuated, with dark brown hair, sunbleached to red at the ends, brushed straight back from it.†   (source)
  • We have tried to accentuate differences.†   (source)
  • reddish-brown scar, where nearly everything had been buffeted down and burned; range on range of collapsed city blocks, with here and there a crude sign erected on a pile of ashes and tiles ('Sister, where are you?' or 'All safe and we live at Toyosaka'); naked trees and canted telephone poles; the few standing, gutted buildings only accentuating the horizontality of everything else (the Museum of Science and Industry, with its dome stripped to its steel frame, as if for an autopsy; the modern Chamber of Commerce Building, its tower as cold, rigid, and unassailable after the blow as before; the huge, low-lying, camouflaged city hall; the row of dowdy banks, caricaturing a shaken economi†   (source)
  • Well, it was wrong in the first place and such things accentuate disaster as a snowball rolls up wet snow.†   (source)
  • A black derby accentuated the sharpness and sedentary pallor of his face; a jacket, loose on his tall spare frame, buttoned up in a V close to the throat; and above the V a tightly-knotted black tie was mounted in the groove of a high starched collar.†   (source)
  • Or, steeped catlike in the wickedness of darkness, adrift in the brooding promise of the neighborhood, they would cluster silently under a Jew's home, grouped in a sniggering huddle as they listened to the rich excited voices, the throaty accentuation of the women; or convulsed at the hysterical quarrels which shook the Jew-walls almost nightly.†   (source)
  • She had a cloud of curly dark hair which was so sternly repressed beneath its net that no vagrant tendrils escaped, and this dark mass, with its long widow's peak, accentuated the heart shape of her face.†   (source)
  • The posture seemed to accentuate the charms of her person and to suggest to my inflamed senses the suppleness of her members.†   (source)
  • Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is the world's notorious indifference.†   (source)
  • She did not want to display her condition in this poorly fitting black dress which accentuated rather than hid her figure.†   (source)
  • Rouge accentuates the natural paleness of her complexion.†   (source)
  • Dusk had fallen and lights had begun to accentuate the shadows.†   (source)
  • His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination.†   (source)
  • A long black scarf accentuated her gaudy attire.†   (source)
  • This feeling had been accentuated by the Ishmaelite life he had led from his puppyhood.†   (source)
  • This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess.†   (source)
  • His features were accentuated, taking on superhuman proportions.†   (source)
  • Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.†   (source)
  • He was a man of purpose, a fine talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures.†   (source)
  • The father's smile became more accentuated.†   (source)
  • Her face was ghastly, with a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin.†   (source)
  • The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility.†   (source)
  • For behind his brow were the thoughts or half-thoughts that first conferred true cloying sweetness to his visions and images, thoughts that centered on Madame Chauchat's carelessness and brazenness, on the illness that accentuated and enhanced her body, the illness that embodied her very being and that he now shared with her according to medical dictum.†   (source)
  • He'll be a perfect 'gentleman,'" she went on, setting her teeth so as to give the word a kind of English accentuation.†   (source)
  • It was one of the few that at all approached fitting, and Paul thought it very becoming-though he knew that the tight, straight coat accentuated his narrow chest, about which he was exceedingly sensitive.†   (source)
  • What are American dry-goods?" asked the Duchess, raising her large hands in wonder, and accentuating the verb.†   (source)
  • She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.†   (source)
  • "Look here, Captain," said Montgomery, with his lisp a little accentuated, gripping the elbows of the red-haired man, "this won't do!"†   (source)
  • All the rest of that world was seemingly smooth, undulating sage, with no ragged lines of canyons to accentuate its wildness.†   (source)
  • TWO letters, which arrived at this time and simultaneously, but accentuated the difficulty of all this.†   (source)
  • The genial disdain of Michel Rollin, who called them impostors, was answered by him with vituperation, of which crapule and canaille were the least violent items; he amused himself with abuse of their private lives, and with sardonic humour, with blasphemous and obscene detail, attacked the legitimacy of their births and the purity of their conjugal relations: he used an Oriental imagery and an Oriental emphasis to accentuate his ribald scorn.†   (source)
  • A stream wound through the middle of this oval and its low rush and gurgle were the only sounds to accentuate the quiet of the morning.†   (source)
  • Certainly her Aunt Emily, who had come over with her to Waterbury, would have rubbed into her, for hours and hours, the idea that any accentuated discussions would kill the old gentleman.†   (source)
  • It was the moment of high water, a moment of immobility that accentuated the utter isolation of this lost corner of the earth.†   (source)
  • The scream of an eagle, the bleating of sheep, the bark of a coyote were once more the only familiar sounds accentuating the silence of the plateau.†   (source)
  • Yet Aglaya had brought out these letters N. P. B. not only without the slightest appearance of irony, or even any particular accentuation, but with so even and unbroken an appearance of seriousness that assuredly anyone might have supposed that these initials were the original ones written in the ballad.†   (source)
  • Every feeling, every imagining he had experienced the previous night returned somewhat more vividly and accentuated by newer ones of the same intensity and color.†   (source)
  • The brown surface of the field went right up towards the sky all round, where it was lost by degrees in the mist that shut out the actual verge and accentuated the solitude.†   (source)
  • Say 'how do you do' to the others, and come and sit down here, quick—I've been waiting for you!" he added, accentuating the fact that he had waited.†   (source)
  • It was sturdy to accentuate her slightness—as if to show what a breeze could be generated by a butterfly's wing.†   (source)
  • The second spontaneous generation, the birth of the organic from the inorganic, was only the sad progression of corporeality into consciousness, just as disease in an organism was the intoxicating enhancement and crude accentuation of its own corporeality.†   (source)
  • "I always thought," he said deliberately, with a certain accentuation of his flavouring of lisp, "that there was something the matter with his ears, from the way he covered them.†   (source)
  • Abby was in a black gown, with white linen cuffs and a broad white collar, and her figure, more developed than formerly, was accentuated by a bunch of daffodils that she wore on her left bosom.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, his love was caught up—and with such an immediacy that it could make the young man blanch and grimace—in Frau Chauchat's knee, the contour of her leg, her back, the nape of her neck, her upper arms and the way they pressed her small breasts together, in brief, caught up in her body, her careless body, so accentuated and vastly enhanced by her illness that it was a second embodiment of her body.†   (source)
  • Down obscure alleys, apparently never trodden now by the foot of man, and whose very existence seemed to be forgotten, there would jut into the path porticoes, oriels, doorways of enriched and florid middle-age design, their extinct air being accentuated by the rottenness of the stones.†   (source)
  • This feeling was accentuated when, after a brief greeting, she went to the door of a butler's pantry and pushing it open called: "You can serve dinner, Martha.†   (source)
  • And indeed new costumes arrived now: ladies in men's clothes, their ample curves making them look as implausible as characters in an operetta, an effect accentuated by black beards drawn on their faces with burnt cork; and vice versa, gentlemen attired in women's clothes, tripping over their skirts—including Rasmussen the student, who wore a black, jet-trimmed gown, its decolletage revealing a pimply chest and ditto back, both of which he tried to cool with a paper fan.†   (source)
  • At the same time the feeling he had noticed between his protegee Natasha and Prince Andrew accentuated his gloom by the contrast between his own position and his friend's.†   (source)
  • The sentence—the dread sentence of death—was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this hatred was accentuated by the fact that when Ivan first came to the neighborhood he had felt quite differently.†   (source)
  • It was lowness and quiet accentuated: an emphasis of deep meanings, their form, at the same time, being scarcely expressed.†   (source)
  • Isabel and her companions, however, were guilty of none; for though Henrietta was obliged in candour to declare that Michael Angelo's dome suffered by comparison with that of the Capitol at Washington, she addressed her protest chiefly to Mr. Bantling's ear and reserved it in its more accentuated form for the columns of the Interviewer.†   (source)
  • That voice, although accentuated by menace, recalled to him another voice, which, that very morning, had dealt the deathblow to his mystery, by drawling, nasally, in the midst of the audience, "Charity, please!"†   (source)
  • But having once made up his mind he went on in his shrill voice, without timidity—or hesitation, accentuating here and there a word.†   (source)
  • It was a sonorous, harmonious, flexible dialect whose vowels seemed to undergo a highly varied accentuation.†   (source)
  • "Buonaparte?" he repeated, accentuating the u: "I think, however, now that he lays down laws for Austria at Schonbrunn, il faut lui faire grace de l'u!†   (source)
  • Master Charmolue exhibited an alarming note book, and began to read, with many gestures and the exaggerated accentuation of the pleader, an oration in Latin, wherein all the proofs of the suit were piled up in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked with quotations from Plautus, his favorite comic author.†   (source)
  • "To him who has borne himself most bravely in this last war," added Napoleon, accentuating each syllable, as with a composure and assurance exasperating to Rostov, he ran his eyes over the Russian ranks drawn up before him, who all presented arms with their eyes fixed on their Emperor.†   (source)
  • The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?"†   (source)
  • The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made it felt.†   (source)
  • Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.†   (source)
  • The mask of Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by honest mud.†   (source)
  • The face of the male Thenardier presented that expressive fold which accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears there in all its bestial force.†   (source)
  • "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible at that word fillette, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by the granduncle and the grandnephew.†   (source)
  • All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis de Vib, the Marquis de Tal, the Marquis de Herb, the Vicomte Damb, and the Duc de Val.†   (source)
  • Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn words at the big maid-servant Matelote:— "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open!†   (source)
  • He was naked, and the faint light seemed to accentuate the hollows left by the wasting fever.†   (source)
  • Like most of the men, he had not bothered to shave while traveling, and a heavy growth of dark brown beard framed his mouth, accentuating the full lower lip.†   (source)
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