Vases in example sentence

Thursday came: all work had been completed the previous evening; carpets were laid down, bed-hangings festooned, radiant white counterpanes spread, toilet tables arranged, furniture rubbed, flowers piled in vases: both chambers and saloons looked as fresh and bright as hands could make them.

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But I took the job and I went on looking at these vases.

So he's having to arrive at two exactly matched vases of this kind.

We've eliminated, in a sense, that constant of the imagination that these vases represented in people's lives.

You may think that can't happen, but I grew up in a society where my mother put out small vases of cigarettes for dinner parties, where blacks and whites used separate bathrooms, and where everybody claimed to be heterosexual.

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