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  • This photograph shows the position of the clothes-pin trigger device as it came to rest when officer John Hall and officer James Bryan pulled out of their parking spot at the International House of Pancakes.

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2002 2002

  • Trace the donkey onto a piece of wood about as thick as the clothes-pin (1 cm).

    Chapter 6 1999

  • This wooden donkey or horse with a clothes-pin head is fun to make and to play with.

    Chapter 6 1999

  • To avoid giving out fresh napkins at every meal, write each name on a spring clothes-pin and pin to the napkin.

    Food and Health Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

  • He had disposed of his last dish-cloth, and he withdrew the remaining clothes-pin from his mouth in a way that was pathetically feminine.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • Those who noticed closely observed that a clothes-pin had been snapped bitingly on the very tip end of his tail, and as he finally caught his bearing, and went down the aisle and out of the door with

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • The hostess hands each guest a large wooden clothes-pin which is to be dressed as a doll, using the tissue paper for dresses and hats.

    Games for Everybody May C. Hofmann

  • To keep the daily paper from blowing away when it is left on the porch, get the carrier to snap it into a spring clothes-pin which is tied to the railing.

    Food and Health Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

  • I raised the cross-bow amid the breathless silence of the crowded audience, -- consisting of seven boys and three girls, exclusive of Kitty Collins, who insisted on paying her way in with a clothes-pin.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

  • When this occurs the flow of water through the chamber is stopped by using the spring clothes-pin as a clip on the upper tube.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

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