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  • Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded “sheaves,” or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • The cheese-shaped body swung rhythmically and its skirt trailed on the ground.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

  • Simon stood by the cylindrical cheese-shaped body of the Hobby-Horse.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

  • They cultivated a kind of cheese-shaped pumpkins which often grew two feet in diameter, yellow as old gold.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded "sheaves," or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the "heart," or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded "sheaves," or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the "heart," or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded 'sheaves,' or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the 'heart,' or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • We caught a glimpse of Cowes, and Osborne to the east of it, where the Queen frequently resides, and the town of Ryde, rising up on a hill surrounded by woods, and then the shipping at Spithead, with the curious cheese-shaped forts erected to guard the eastern entrance to the Solent.

    A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • He wore a cheese-shaped hat, a symbol of Wisconsin, and carried a sign that said one bank "spread bad mortgages, then foreclosed on thousands."

    The Seattle Times 2011

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