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WordNet
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I am not bothered excelsior, but i am real and therefore have mass.— WordPress.com News
About: excelsior is a GTK2 theme engine that features merged tool and menu bars, gradients on entries and troughs, a gradient on the MainWindow, random effects, and more.— freshmeat.net Releases
It never stopped One night Cis and he, bent over the lip of the window, she upholstered on a certain excelsior-filled pillow which was very dear to her, and he padded by Big Tom's cast-offs, had attempted to realize what Mrs. Kukor had said.— The Rich Little Poor Boy
The easiest stuffings to procure are hay, excelsior, or paper; among others which should be covered to keep them in place are wool, mineral wool, cork, sawdust and cotton.— The Community Cook Book
Layer after layer of paper and excelsior were lifted out, and all they could find was more wrappings.— Mary Ware's Promised Land

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