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The chorus was dressed rather modestly while the dancers wore expensive and opulent costumes.
She wore a blue serge gown with a shirt dotted with little blue + red spots.
Patients sat y32 cm from the ionizer and wore a grounded wrist strap to maximize ion flow toward the body.
They wore down the army through guerrilla and mobile warfare, the first two phases in a protracted war.
Although he wore it lightly, he was always a thoughtful man, and time and again his judgement was proved sound.
Men and women carried their swearing as lightly as they wore their cloaks...
Over time, they were unable to avoid widespread accusations of treachery and betrayal, and this wore them down.
Subjects wore a black eye-patch over the non-dominant eye.
The relative decline of the radical press as the 1850s wore on meant that the potential political power of the novel was immense.
Lots of people wore crosses on their clothing in the thirteenth century and while it proclaimed them penitents it did not make them outcasts.
He studied times, places, different types of beggars - almost even the clothes that they wore - to heighten the effect that they created.
They wore patriotic colours, red, white, and blue, and their jackets buttoned at the back, as a daily, practical exercise in fraternal interdependence.
Most members dressed in leotards, tights and ballet shoes or wore leggings and t-shirts with their feet bare.
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