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  • A prayer rug showing a slightly oblong Mecca was nailed to one of the walls.†  (source)
  • Soon the mutilation became symbolic only: an oblong blue tattoo at the V of the collarbone.†  (source)
  • He was used to a thin orange oblong with a smokestack coughing black fumes.†  (source)
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  • We kept walking until we reached one of the oblong sand bunkers of the golf course.†  (source)
  • Instead of the trim, geometrically laid-out cantonments and the larger oblongs of the hangars, nothing was visible but an opaque mist veiling an immense, sun-brown desolation.†  (source)
  • LALE WANDERS INTO THE main compound to see SS officers painting a white line into what is far from an oblong shape.†  (source)
  • This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas flame was like a speck rather than a disc of light.†  (source)
  • You notice a rise in the sea, an oblong bump, coming rapidly toward you.†  (source)
  • Sunlight measured itself out in regular oblongs on the shabby, but soft red carpets, and a whiff of fresh-cut grass sweetened the air.†  (source)
  • We bumped along past an oblong pond fifty yards across, ringed all around with tall cattails.†  (source)
  • The light upon the railway puzzled me at first; there were a black heap and a vivid glare, and to the right of that a row of yellow oblongs.†  (source)
  • It was oblong and white with rounded edges.†  (source)
  • Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.†  (source)
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