1. admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs
2. some artists prefer the smoothness of a board
1. "Operation Claret proceeded with the sort of smoothness that suggested no one in authority was paying adequate attention."
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Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
2. "For in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet
3. "Gradually we can begin to cherish the preciousness of our whole life just as it is, with its ups and downs, its failures and successes, its roughness and smoothness."
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Pema Chödrön, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
4. "As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues."
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Quote by Zadie Smith
5. "France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance"
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Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
6. "I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover."
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Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
7. "Amphora, he murmured against the wide, sweet curve of her lips. His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance. Like a Grecian vase. God, you’ve got the most beautiful arse! Jug-butt, huh?"
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Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn
8. "My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself. I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer’s sun. What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer."
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Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau
9. "In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called in English Hours persons for whom the private machinery of ease has been made to work with extraordinary smoothness."
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William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm
10. "A curly wisp of hair had come loose from her updo, kissing the side of her face. Seth longed to brush it behind her ear, to feel the silky smoothness of her skin under the pad of his thumb. He clenched his fist before he followed through and got his hand smacked away."
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Denise Hunter, A December Bride