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Here is the former from official state television in Iran, a mostly peaceful-looking march, people in the streets protesting another march, one to show support for a major opposition cleric who died last weekend.
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Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Two regiments of foot followed the cavalry, one with peaceful-looking green and white plumes, the other with horsetails dyed scarlet.
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A few of them came to grief on hidden sandbanks and coral reefs, losing their all and barely escaping with life from the cruel grip of this sunny and smiling sea; others got discouraged; and for many years the green and peaceful-looking islands guarding the entrances to the promised land kept their secret with all the merciless serenity of tropical nature.
Almayer's Folly 2006
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At one peaceful-looking village where they stopped off to get
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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A volley from nearly fifty guns roars like a salute from a battery of artillery: we shall note its effect presently on the peaceful-looking village below.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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And so it was that Scudamore, with the sinking sun to help him, descried at a long distance down the tidal reach a peaceful-looking boat, which made his heart beat faster.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Those jarring sounds seemed to have something linking them with the tragedy of which the peaceful-looking bungalow was lately the scene, and of which you have doubtless read.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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T he Cabinet Room, at the rear of the old mansion section, was long, with tall windows down one side and across one end, facing out into a peaceful-looking walled garden.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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