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Every day, instead of hunting, Goolahwilleel had been gathering wattle-gum, and with this he had been modelling a kangaroo—a perfect model of one, tail, ears, and all complete.

From Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

Those lips, the face, the throat, everything, all—he knew it now!—it was she that he had been modelling there in Paris!

From The Belovéd Traitor by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)