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If you move the mouse slowly you get a laser-focused beam of intense colour, move it quickly and you get a wide swath of gossamer-like colour.
Draw Abstract Wallpaper Using The Flame Drawing Tool | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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This overskirt, however, was insufficiently gossamer-like to achieve the effect.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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If you move the mouse slowly you get a laser-focused beam of intense colour, move it quickly and you get a wide swath of gossamer-like colour.
Draw Abstract Wallpaper Using The Flame Drawing Tool | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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There's a new sim on the grid featuring lacy, gossamer-like buildings that almost defy description.
Spun fantasy: The Metaverse Broadcasting Company Bettina Tizzy 2009
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There's a new sim on the grid featuring lacy, gossamer-like buildings that almost defy description.
Archive 2009-09-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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She was dressed in light layers of the same teasing gossamer-like material as the shades, which hardly covered her lithe body.
Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003
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Next moment they were gleefully dancing hither and thither, while the silver shuttles flew swiftly from hand to hand and the gossamer-like w eb began to grow upon the loom.
Queen Zixi of Ix Baum, L. Frank 1971
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A hand-made ground made of looped buttonhole stitches, which is the finest and most gossamer-like of all; and
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes
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On leaving the carding machines the lap has become a gossamer-like web thirty-nine inches broad.
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It is noted that the yarns for the gossamer-like Dacca muslins of India were so fine that one pound of cotton was spun into a thread 253 miles long.
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