Of course then there is the desert in harlequin, it comes from the first Harleqin I ever read and it will always be a fav. From Wordnik.com. [NZ/Aus Guest Author: Nicola Marsh] Reference
This is called the harlequin bug from its fantastic appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
The harlequin was a little girl named Gilchrist, one of the most beautiful children, in face and figure, that I have ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)] Reference
Ryan was born with a rare genetic skin disorder called harlequin ichthyosis where the skin sheds seven to 10 times faster than normal. From Wordnik.com. [10News.com - Local News] Reference
I swaggered and shrugged and played harlequin and boaster. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
IC this week is to write a chapter of a harlequin romance. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
The harlequin on the bank turned his little pug-nose up to me. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
There was also a very good harlequin, and as good a scaramouch. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
He seemed to be on the best of terms with some well-disposed harlequin. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Their colors ranged from harlequin bright to patriotic to almost natural. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The coachman must have sprung to his box with the quickness of a harlequin. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
We folded up the hawking mat and hurried to get into our harlequin costumes. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
The new one (99 Softail Springer) is black with a harlequin flame job on it. From Wordnik.com. [katress Diary Entry] Reference
He used three different harlequin colors for a total of nine different shades. From Wordnik.com. [katress Diary Entry] Reference
And where's his master of the game, practical and theoretical, in a harlequin cap?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
A small box with a harlequin in pastel colors playing a flute commands 18,200 rubles. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Moscow:] Reference
On ordinary occasions, and especially in the daytime, it insists on playing the harlequin. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
It was a harlequin crowd at Maxim's -- a noisier, tenser, more hectic crowd than at the Riche. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
Society is a harlequin stage, upon which you never appear in your own dress nor without a mask. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Who would have imagined these gentlemen would have played the harlequin and receive their dethroned. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The skin between them darkened, too, knitting her freckles together into a speckled harlequin mask. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Common Sense gives to Rich, the harlequin, a halter, while to Fielding she accords an overflowing purse. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
There was a short line of crimson in one of the black patches on the left side of his harlequin costume. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
With the agility of a harlequin, I sprang to my friendly perch just in time to save myself from his fangs. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Arthur Smith, Albert's brother, played pantaloon; Bidwell was harlequin; Joseph Robins, clown; Albert Smith. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
For Pierre was my harlequin, and what man can easily censure his own amusements even when he sees their harm?. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The young ones have delicate rose-coloured bills and harlequin-like markings on the body, and rosy-white breasts. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
We think that the proliferation of the harlequin bug on the brassicas is worsened by the fact the crops are netted. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: The sweet, maligned turnip] Reference
With that exposed side-boobage and the plunging neckline, the dress looks more slutty harlequin than Audrey Hepburn. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 3 Recap: Everybody Hates Gretchen] Reference
The one that I wore in those days showed the bells and ribands of the harlequin, but there was chain armor underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
It is thought, to suit the diversity of opinions in the parish cabinet, that it will be painted in a harlequin pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841] Reference
Desmarets wanted to lay another child to my son's account; but he replied, "No, that child is too much of a harlequin.". From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Did she notice the ornamental touches around the entrance, the Roman urns spilling granite fruit, the harlequin marble?. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The harlequin gecko is commonly found among subalpine cushion plants and is one of the world's southernmost lizard species. From Wordnik.com. [Rakiura Island temperate forests] Reference
Mr. Buzfuz, Q.C., pushes his way into Court, surrounds himself with briefs and other documents, when some mysterious harlequin of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
There wasn't a white-faced harlequin tying his body into knots, there was no red-nosed comic to make us sing 'Underneath the Arches'. From Wordnik.com. [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]
He would put a fool's cap on our head and dress us up in the parti-colored robes of a harlequin for the nations of the world to laugh at. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
I have played the jongleur and the harlequin so strongly that it seemed that I could do nothing more beyond what had already been achieved. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
(Soundbite of shouting) ARNOLD: The beaches were black and oil-coated eagles, sea otters and harlequin ducks were washing up the thousands. From Wordnik.com. [Exxon's Alaska Oil Spill Case Heads to High Court] Reference
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