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  • And then all at once a gigantic, plume-shaped, sepia coloured mass rose towering out of the ground.

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • Brightly play the ripples about the bushy edges of the islands and on the plume-shaped streaks between them, ruffled by gentle passing wind-currents.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

  • Some of the species on windy outjutting rocks become very picturesque, almost as much so as old oaks, the foliage becoming dense and the branchlets tufted in heavy plume-shaped horizontal masses.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

  • This one is of far different form, with plume-shaped pinnate fronds, of the character of _cocos_, _phoenix_, or _euterpe_.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • She, too, later gravitated to brooches: in 1989 she bought a diamond plume-shaped brooch belonging to her late friend, the dumpy-fingered Duchess.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • She, too, later gravitated to brooches: in 1989 she bought a diamond plume-shaped brooch belonging to her late friend, the dumpy-fingered Duchess.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012

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