Vases in example sentence

The hall, too, was scoured; and the great carved clock, as well as the steps and banisters of the staircase, were polished to the brightness of glass; in the dining-room, the sideboard flashed resplendent with plate; in the drawing-room and boudoir, vases of exotics bloomed on all sides.

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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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