Word: shawl
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...Spanish shawl, she sang an unaccomplished Spanish love. With eyes, mouth, chin, fingers, feet, she told the story of her song. Then a last tender note half-unsung, she stopped, plucked a flower from her dress, swung across the footlights made as if to throw it to some paunchy fellow, and did not. So everybody laughed after their tears, and Raquel flitted backstage under cover of thunderous applause...
...Little's Point. The Marine Guard was drawn up to receive the President. At the entrance of Red Gables, home of Frank W. Stearns, the selectmen of Swampscott greeted the party. Mrs. Stearns, who recently suffered a breakdown on her return from a trip abroad, appeared waving a white shawl to Mrs. Coolidge. Then all went in to breakfast. Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge crossed into the grounds of their summer residence next door, by way of the formal garden...
...Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting...
Miss Anthony's shawl...
...shores of seas. "Oh, how I should like to be a merchant," she cried. Jonah could not get work; the place for a successful prophet, people said, was in the desert. At last he went to Judith for comfort. When he spoke of their love, she twisted her shawl. . . . "I hardly knew what I was doing. . . . Do not think too badly of me. ... I am going to marry Hiram of Tyre...