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"text": "The worst drawings that have ever come from [ Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast […]",
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},
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"text": "Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw.",
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"sense": "to use small dots to give the appearance of shading to",
"word": "нанасям пунктир"
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"sense": "to use small dots to give the appearance of shading to",
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