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Erect, showy flower spikes with tiered whorls of dense, lavender flowers, somewhat resembling grape hyacinth (Muscari), rise just above the leaves in late summer.
Don’t Monkey Around: It’s time to trim your Monkey Grass « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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Erect as a Buckingham Palace guard, he gets his laughs with his eyes, endlessly bulging at the Prime Minister's lapses, and with his obsequiously dominating tone of voice.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat David Finkle 2010
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Erect, slender, grey-haired, of graceful military bearing, Roscoe Scandwell was a member of the "Big Five," which, by the interlocking of interests, determined the destinies of all Hawaii.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Erect as a Buckingham Palace guard, he gets his laughs with his eyes, endlessly bulging at the Prime Minister's lapses, and with his obsequiously dominating tone of voice.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat David Finkle 2010
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Her readers are used to three books a year and The Sword Erect is long overdue already.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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Well, it certainly is different, Allegra said thoughtfully once Ellen had stopped reading the ending that she herself had written for The Sword Erect.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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Big-crested penguin (also Erect-crested penguin) (Eudyptes sclateri)
Penguins 2010
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Yet, in The Sword Erect the heroine had endured more ravishing than Ellen could remember in any other Allegra Howard novel or indeed any other book on which she had worked on the Cherished Desires list.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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Ellen jumped when the alarm clock sounded so that the pages of The Sword Erect that she had been reading slipped to the floor, skimming one over the other as they fluttered gracefully downward.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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Please, Ellen, she really needs somewhere nice and homey to stay while she tries to finish The Sword Erect.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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