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Examples
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"My daughter!" exclaimed the piper, in a half-angry, half-sorrowful voice, while a slight moisture forced itself through his orbless lids.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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In this condition we saw these orbless combatants, who were speedily separated from each other.
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. John Carr 1802
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This is what Jesus foresaw for the scribes and the Pharisees, and the moral caution bristles with rank and smellable detail under the painter's touch, from the begging bowl at one man's waist to the orbless, accusing eyes that another turns on us, in pleading or rebuke.
The New Yorker Anthony Lane 2008
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"And left an orbless trunk, that knows nor night nor day.
Poetical Sketches 1795
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