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  • In regard of the potter, popularly so called (says the plate), you don’t mean to say you have forgotten that a workman called a Thrower is the man under whose hand this grey dough takes the shapes of the simpler household vessels as quickly as the eye can follow?

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • We called Thrower a _lady_ of the party, and made her dine with us, for had they known she was only a "help," she might probably have fared badly.

    First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Isabella Strange Trotter 1847

  • Shadow of Chinatown: Chapter 6 - The Sword Thrower

    Movie: Shadow of Chinatown (1936) Zen Tiger 2010

  • Such objects have included “a thing hurled in a specific direction,” or “the directed thing,” or, to put it in Ancient Greek, the dískos of the athlete we know in English as the Discus Thrower.2

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Such objects have included “a thing hurled in a specific direction,” or “the directed thing,” or, to put it in Ancient Greek, the dískos of the athlete we know in English as the Discus Thrower.2

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In the second part of The Eagle, it is learned that the girl who Arthur considered his soul mate in the Lance Thrower was in fact his sister and that an act of naïve incest was committed.

    2010 February 10 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Continuing on from the Lance Thrower, our narrator is Clothar, known as “Lance” by his friends because of his skilled ability to throw lances with precision at the enemy – a feat no other man, not even Arthur, can master.

    “The Eagle: The Concluding Volume of the Camulod Chronicles” by Jack Whyte (Forge, 2006) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Continuing on from the Lance Thrower, our narrator is Clothar, known as “Lance” by his friends because of his skilled ability to throw lances with precision at the enemy – a feat no other man, not even Arthur, can master.

    2010 February 10 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Flame Thrower seems like a pretty weak villain to face off against the very powerful Human Torch.

    The Human Torch for Hostess Twinkies - The Retroist 2010

  • Few can emphasize the safety side of it with more authority than Mickey Levinson, the physical therapist at the Hospital for Special Surgery who runs their Thrower's Program.

    Tutoring Trend Reaches the Mound Joshua Robinson 2011

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