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  • She climbed into the cart, her profile knife-clean against a cheery blue sky.

    Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987

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  • The feather in her hat had been knife-clean and quivering as if in an heraldic wind . . .

    —Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

    November 18, 2008