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Page 41
... resembled a puissant blend of both sexes - Lady Chatterley and her lover rolled into one , I recollect a contemporary humorist observing . From beneath the brim of a hard black Spanish hat sprang locks of wiry black hair . Her eyebrows ...
... resembled a puissant blend of both sexes - Lady Chatterley and her lover rolled into one , I recollect a contemporary humorist observing . From beneath the brim of a hard black Spanish hat sprang locks of wiry black hair . Her eyebrows ...
Page 81
... resembled an old dog reminiscently playing with a once- loved , much - beslobbered toy . Augustus died on 31 October 1961 , at the age of eighty - four , having outlived almost all his artistic contemporaries - his sister Gwen , his ...
... resembled an old dog reminiscently playing with a once- loved , much - beslobbered toy . Augustus died on 31 October 1961 , at the age of eighty - four , having outlived almost all his artistic contemporaries - his sister Gwen , his ...
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... resembled the chill study of a nineteenth- century pedagogue or parson ; and the few pictures that decor- ated it had what were then called ' Oxford frames ' , the enclosing strips of wood being so arranged that they formed a cross at ...
... resembled the chill study of a nineteenth- century pedagogue or parson ; and the few pictures that decor- ated it had what were then called ' Oxford frames ' , the enclosing strips of wood being so arranged that they formed a cross at ...
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