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Examples for "sable "
Examples for "sable "
1 Streaks of reflected starlight blurred on the sable water below, growing closer.
2 No sable ; no tracks of sable ; no old signs, even, of sable .
3 And Etienne appeared, dressed in sable mourning, and bowed before the throne.
4 The flight of the squirrel and the unsuccessful sable were quickly forgotten.
5 The young sacristans, the sable nuns, vanished successively through the open door.
1 Lords - gold cloth, gold corses, sable fur , purple silk
2 The fourth had a collar of black sable fur .
3 He with the sable fur collar made his obeisance.
4 He is pallid and thin, and wears a dark-colored mantle- alargemantle-linedwith sable fur .
5 She wore a traveling cap of sable fur .
6 The 'yessak,' or 'poll-tax' of the natives is payable in sable fur , at the rate of a skin for every four persons.
7 I appreciate the beautiful contrast of fair skin against a background of sable fur , or silver fox, or rich, black, velvety seal.
8 In the mail on the Ingodah there were twelve hundred pounds of sable fur sent by Mr. Chase to his agent in St. Petersburg.
9 In the distance the sea weeds were black, sable furs , covering the velvet robes of earth.
10 The wrap she wears is of sable furs - but how different from the furs of her sister of ancient days!
11 She stopped to let pass a black horse, pawing the ground between the shafts of a tilbury, driven by a gentleman in sable furs .
12 Inside were three sets of sable furs , handsomer than any in the church, Tish says, and I know I've never seen any like them.
13 Therein so splendidly did the brown colour of his hair shine forth, that one would have thought him a northern king in his sable furs .
14 Quite a new, sweet face with black eyebrows and mustaches peeped up at him from her sable furs - so close and yet so distant-inthe moonlight.
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