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  • Nigel Gupta, a guest from California, defying the rules (_No Glass Receptacles_), brought a jug of ice water, a bottle of whiskey, and a glass tumbler to the pool.

    Beard 2010

  • That last post Google translated as a bunch of Racks and Receptacles.

    Leverage Week 1 Rogers 2008

  • At last the poor Creature was abandon'd to all Misery, even Hunger and a nauseous Disease; between which she must have inevitably perish'd, a loathsome Example of Folly and Lewdness; but that the Doctor to whom I had recommended her, got her into an Hospital, from whence, after her Cure, she went away to the Plantations, those great Receptacles of such scandalous and miserable Miscreants.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • - Receptacles (bait boxes), e.g. sardine tins, with warning signs

    11. Rodent pests 1996

  • Thus these three Receptacles were made in the same order which we have describ'd, and these were the first part of that great Mass which was form'd; now they stood in need of one another's assistance; the first wanted the other two as Servants, and they again the assistance and guidance of the first, as their Master and Director; but both these

    The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

  • Receptacles, tho 'inferior to the first, were nevertheless superior to all those Members which were form'd afterwards.

    The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

  • Receptacles of numerous kinds are in use for individual servings of frozen desserts.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies

  • Receptacles for picking usually hold about half a bushel.

    Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

  • Adams (103); Aspiration (over main portal), by Leo Lentelli; Decorations on Flower Receptacles, by Ulric H. Ellerhusen (103).

    The Jewel City Ben Macomber

  • Receptacles are provided, also, where the inmates can wash their clothes and have them dried by means of an ingenious electrical contrivance and hot air, capable of thoroughly drying any ordinary garment in twenty minutes while its owner takes a bath.

    Regeneration Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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