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Cloris

fem. proper name, from Chloris, Latin form of Greek Khloris, goddess of flowers (later identified with Roman Flora), literally "greenness, freshness," poetic fem. of khloros "greenish-yellow, fresh," related to khloe "young green shoot" (see Chloe).

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Even with both channels, Mora Dyen and Cloris Agar, monitoring, he thrashed through four aborts before they could get the transfer into him.

As soon as Digen walked in the door, Cloris Agar stepped out of one of the cubicles partitioned off by heavy insulating drapes.

Because Joe Stinson had a snazzy sister named Cloris, and he liked being alone in her room.

I had a prior address for Roxanne Faught, but nothing for Cloris Bargo.

I checked my city map and drew a bead on my destinationa tract of middle-class homes just beyond the Fair Isle off-ramp, where Cloris Bargo had seen the girl.

A check of the white pages revealed one Bargo, not Cloris, but a sister who didn't even bother to quiz my purposes before she gave me the current phone number and the Colgate address.

Stacey had hoped to establish a time line, working backward from Roxanne's encounter to Cloris Bargo's sighting of the girl hitchhiking outside Colgate.

Now Cloris had recanted and I suspected Roxanne's observations were too tainted to be of use.

I went on with a summary of my travels, starting with Cloris Bargo and the lie she'd told.