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  • Husks of dead crickets lay on the dusty window sills and a non-unpleasant smell of rotting bindings pervaded the air.

    Roger Fransecky: What Will You Remember? Roger Fransecky 2010

  • Husks shuffle about in the moonlight, covering the stairs to the Garden entrance.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • Husks shuffle about in the moonlight, covering the stairs to the Garden entrance.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • Husks of pickup trucks used by pro-Gadhafi forces were strewn across the roads.

    Loyalist Fighters Dig In as Libya Rebels Set Bounty Charles Levinson 2011

  • Husks of school buses and Volkswagen vans, rusted relics, sit in the shady woods.

    Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans Windolf, Jim 2007

  • Husks of rye and scraps of straw were being splintered aside by the charging horse.

    Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

  • Husks, coir dust, and shells are the residues after the shelled nut has been obtained.

    Chapter 5 1983

  • Coffee and cacao processing Husks Cotton seed processing Hulls, linters

    Chapter 5 1979

  • HARRIETT PEMBLETON (_Gah do rehn tah_ -- "Dropping Husks") Tuscarora Turtle

    Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children Mabel Powers

  • Pale and amber Malts dryed with Coak or Culm, obtains a more clean bright pale Colour than if dryed with any other Fuel, because there is not smoak to darken and sully their Skins or Husks, and give them an ill relish, that those Malts little or more have, which are dryed with Straw, Wood, or

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

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