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This intimate volume includes slices of memoir, critical essays and appreciations of other authors, among them Ross Macdonald, whose prose she finds “so elegant and rich as to drive any writer to fits of envy.”

It was a hang session so epic that Hudson, joining the call, seems green with an envy that matches her sweater.

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“They say that the head bakers from the finest patisseries in Paris come to the Fern Court, take one bite of tarte Philippe, and collapse, weeping with envy.”

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He said Ford is struggling to hire mechanics at salaries that Ivy League grads might envy.

The Oracle of Omaha weighed in on aging, envy and great American comebacks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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