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  • Since the attack, several "narco-manta" bed-sheets were found throughout Guatemala signed by the Zetas.

    Mexican Gang Moves Into Guatemala Nicholas Casey 2011

  • They burst forth, thin rivulets of blood streaming through them, soiling her clothes, her bed-sheets.

    Twin Moons 2010

  • Sandy isn't going onto the Jury; she's being returned to that nice "home" that has been looking for her ever since she hid her medications for two days, tied the bed-sheets together, and escaped out a window to Survivor.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Tocantins: Tooth or Consequences. 2009

  • Put it like this: Kiddo was the only Hoplite, but I saw a lot of bed-sheets.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Penny 2008

  • Put it like this: Kiddo was the only Hoplite, but I saw a lot of bed-sheets.

    Essay - all done Penny 2008

  • So, on what the management expected to be a slow winter morning — the millionaires tucked in their Swedish bed-sheets or SUVs — the general public was allowed into an area of the hall where mahogany blackjack tables with blue felt and padded armrests were temporarily replaced by folding tables, chessboards and game clocks.

    Stalin's Ghost Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2007

  • The bed-sheets that we held out to the beam of the camp's searchlights were daubed with conciliatory words: don't send us home to be tortured,

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • In the space of a few weeks I had set fire to my bed-sheets, defaced my Latin primer, absented myself from Mass without permission and been caught attempting to escape in the back of a laundry van.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • The bed-sheets that we held out to the beam of the camp's searchlights were daubed with conciliatory words: don't send us home to be tortured,

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Every so often we are reminded that the Republican "big tent" is cut from the same white cotton bed-sheets favored by the KKK.

    Aunt Liddy, Cousin Lynne and Auntie Laura: Our Republican Women Warriors 2006

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