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  • We took turns with the mirror as we ate mulberries, pelted each other with them, giggling, laughing; I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire I can still see his tiny low—set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought.†  (source)
  • For them I'm only an appendage: Laura's odd, extra hand, attached to no body — the hand that passed her on, to the world, to them.†  (source)
  • When he set the brush down and released her, she leapt and circled, examining her priceless appendage, then bounded over to Henry and Baboo and nosed them both.†  (source)
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  • But this was still just an appendage to the ancient brain, that part of us that gave us the "gut feeling" when something wasn't right.†  (source)
  • And all of the attendant appendages and orifices one would imagine.†  (source)
  • An appendage with a claw clamped down on him, lifted him into the air and threw him.†  (source)
  • They were sick with longing for their hands, those appendages men use to mitigate the world.†  (source)
  • His eyes had suddenly locked on a contraption attached to the top of the truck-a satellite dish on a collapsible appendage.†  (source)
  • Ahead of the pipe-layers was a digging machine, like a wolf spider or praying mantis, with a wide stance but a pair of dangerous-looking appendages at its front, coming together in a crenellated scraper near where its mouth would have been.†  (source)
  • At his side, like a useless appendage, is his wife, twenty-seven years younger and equally poor, whose arms and legs are loaded with real and fake bracelets and rings left over from more prosperous days.†  (source)
  • Her Majesty was three times the size of her largest soldiers—a towering mass of black chitin and barbed appendages, with diaphanous oval wings folded against her back.†  (source)
  • But the idea of a permanent gash across the bridge of my nose and mat burns on every pointed appendage does not appeal to me no matter how many trophies I might walk away with.†  (source)
  • His leaves, his hair, have mostly departed, we can surmise, and his appendages are less resolute than formerly, and of course, he's entered a quieter period than his youth had been.†  (source)
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