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old-fashioned
or more rarely: appearing old
even more rarely: covered with fine whitish hairs or down
or more rarely: appearing old
even more rarely: covered with fine whitish hairs or down
- I saw this specter of white anger coming from the savage gray and meanwhile shot northward, in a great hurry to get to Bruges and out of this line of white which was like eternity opening up right beside destructions of the modern world, hoary and grumbling.Chapter 26 (98% in)
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