be the very picture of
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You turn round and cast suspicious glances towards a hedge, where wild flowers are growing and that you thought to be the very picture of sylvan solitude, and you see several figures dodging behind it.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by J. (John) Macgowan
Mrs Wititterly was declared, upon the testimony of two veracious and competent witnesses, to be the very picture of a countess!
From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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