solitaire

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• The inhabitants had reincarnated themselves in the bodies of the solitaires and had conjured up the whole island as it once was, with its forests, its waterfalls, its flowers, plants, and pleasant climate.

  Fiction book (2001)

• He was playing solitaire on the side of a suitcase.

  Fiction book (2001)

• It was a handsome, solitary bird and was therefore known as the solitaire, while a similar bird on Mauritius was called the dodo.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Here is the last home of the solitaires, each in its solitude but companions in death, enclosed forever in the coral depths of the Amber Hole.

  Fiction book (2001)

• And early, she’s off to the far ends of the coconut groves to take pictures, so she says, and find any traces left on the rocks by our solitaire.

  Fiction book (2001)

• He has unfolded for her what could have been simply a lecture on the solitaires, a narrative that gradually becomes a tale, a reverie, a meditation on the birds.

  Fiction book (2001)

• But others, very old or very young, other Rodriguans—and that really pleased me—allowed as how my story about Priscilla, with the soul of the dead man and the solitaires in tears, well, they believed it.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Like so many other women before her, British-American actress Jane Seymour cemented her place as an international sex symbol after starring as a Bond girl, portraying Solitaire in 1973's Live and Let Die opposite Roger Moore.

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• The solitaire was a large, flightless bird endemic to the islands of Mauritius and Réunion.

• Once common on Mauritius, the solitaire is now known only from historical accounts and fossils.

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Etymology