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Examples
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Maybe you will hear the corn fairies going pla-sizzy pla-sizzy-sizzy, softer than an eye wink, softer than a Nebraska baby's thumb.
Rootabaga Stories Carl Sandburg 1922
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Now those old zigzag rail fences were beautiful for the fairies because a hundred fairies could sit on one rail and thousands and thousands of them could sit on the zigzags and sing pla-sizzy pla-sizzy, softer than an eye-wink, softer than a baby's thumb, all on a moonlight summer night.
Rootabaga Stories Carl Sandburg 1922
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They sing soft songs that go pla-sizzy pla-sizzy-sizzy, and each song is softer than an eye wink, softer than a Nebraska baby's thumb.
Rootabaga Stories Carl Sandburg 1922
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The air was full of trouble ” trouble in set pieces and bombs and sizzy rockets and sixteen-ball Roman candles, and all pointed right at me.
Old Gorgon Graham Lorimer, George H 1903
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