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  • The Wallaby shorts are very tight, and the have a satin-like sheen to them, too.

    Short shorts put Australians in a tight spot at the Rugby World Cup | Harry Pearson 2011

  • So we ordered thick, beautiful curtains, gold and brown with a satin-like surface and a thick cotton lining.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • So we ordered thick, beautiful curtains, gold and brown with a satin-like surface and a thick cotton lining.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • So we ordered thick, beautiful curtains, gold and brown with a satin-like surface and a thick cotton lining.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • The terrorist sympathizing left, including the three opposition parties, refuse to acknowledge that there favorite animal, Khadr, is not a “child soldier” since he never was a soldier; and, only a far left terrorists loving moron would claim that “coercive interrogation”, which protects us against these satin-like creatures, is torture.

    Omar Khadr Ad Infinitum « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Massive trunks, mottled satin-like bark of faded greens and white.

    One and Two 2003

  • Massive trunks, mottled satin-like bark of faded greens and white.

    One and Two 2003

  • One of the more striking forms of sugar work is pulled sugar, which develops a lovely delicate satin-like opacity.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • One of the more striking forms of sugar work is pulled sugar, which develops a lovely delicate satin-like opacity.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Maurice, lost in her presence, grew dizzy with the scent of her hair — that indefinable odour, which has something of the raciness in it of new-turned earth — and foolish wishes arose and jostled one another in his mind: he would have liked to plunge both hands into the dark, luxuriant mass; still better, cautiously to draw his palm down this whitest skin, which, seen so near, had a faint, satin-like sheen.

    Maurice Guest 2003

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