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Pauline surrendered, and they went across the etiolated lawn towards the entrance.

PLASHERS MEADCOMPTON MACKENZIE

The undergrowth was green, but in the etiolated way of plants which have little light, though that may have been my fancy.

Because of this fact, magnesium-starvation produces etiolated plants, which cannot function normally.

It can thus develop its personality so that it does not become etiolated and atrophied like a domestic animal.

His voice was hollow, etiolated like a flower grown in darkness.

And he had a kind of sickness very repulsive to a sensitive girl, something cunning and etiolated and degenerate.

THE RAINBOWD. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE

He felt as the etiolated grass and daisies must do when you move the garden roller away to a new place.

Suddenly began the plaint of the organ, and some half-dozen voices sang a hymn; and these pale, etiolated voices interested her.

Then the pale, etiolated voices of the nuns, the wailing of these weak voices—there were three altos, three sopranos—began again.

Mr. Jevons, however, adduces it as proof of 'the existence of the totem-sacrament,' surviving 'in an etiolated form.'

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OCTOBER 26, 1985