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  • Other real-life sparks include: My father, Arvel, was the inspiration for Uncle Arvie in Pleasing the Ghost, and the two years that I lived in Switzerland sparked some of the ideas in Bloomability.

    Sharon Creech: In Her Own Words ... 2010

  • 3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out.

    Song of Songs : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • I read it in a juvenile book published about the end of last century, entitled the Pleasing Instructor.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I read it in a juvenile book published about the end of last century, entitled the Pleasing Instructor.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Pleasing, but not too pleasing, music begins playing over the PA system.

    writing in loops Peter DeWolf 2011

  • The Pleasing Houris the story of an American in Europe whose coming-of-age defies all our usual conceptions of naivete and experience.

    Voyager 2010

  • Pleasing the base and the newly elected conservatives, while staying focused on the middle, is the leadership's first task.

    Election results are open to (careful) interpretation Dan Balz 2010

  • "Morning Glory" is a portrait of a flat, sexually frustrated Alice staring off canvas while Gertrude lovingly dotes on her poodle Basket; "Pleasing Papa" features a leering Ernest Hemingway -- a protégé-turned-adversary of Stein's -- flanked by both women at a bar with Gertrude in drag; and "Alice at Loggerheads" is another portrait of a vexed Alice, drinking, contemplating and snuffing her cigarettes into an upturned seashell, a traditional symbol of fertility.

    Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

  • Pleasing as it was to see the return of Theo Walcott from his ankle injury, his inaction during five weeks on the sidelines meant that he needed help from others, even if Wenger had hoped that the Englishman would come to the aid of the team.

    Arsène Wenger considers options after Arsenal draw with Blackburn 2011

  • "Morning Glory" is a portrait of a flat, sexually frustrated Alice staring off canvas while Gertrude lovingly dotes on her poodle Basket; "Pleasing Papa" features a leering Ernest Hemingway -- a protégé-turned-adversary of Stein's -- flanked by both women at a bar with Gertrude in drag; and "Alice at Loggerheads" is another portrait of a vexed Alice, drinking, contemplating and snuffing her cigarettes into an upturned seashell, a traditional symbol of fertility.

    Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

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