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According to a report in the Boulder Daily Camera, vandals tore an eye-wash station from the wall Thursday night and flooded the Ramaley biology building at the University of Colorado.
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The statement you have just made is mere eye-wash.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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It is frequently used as a digestive and, when made into an infusion and cooled, as an eye-wash and a cleanser for superficial wounds.
A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006
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It is frequently used as a digestive and, when made into an infusion and cooled, as an eye-wash and a cleanser for superficial wounds.
A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006
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It is frequently used as a digestive and, when made into an infusion and cooled, as an eye-wash and a cleanser for superficial wounds.
A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina 2006
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But for many Pakistanis, it was just an eye-wash because they believe that the incumbent government is colluding with the US administration and such protests are just for local consumption.
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The arrest of the three IPS officers—DIG Vanzara and SPs, Raj Kumar Pandian of Gujarat and Dinesh Kumar of Rajasthan, and their suspension after more than a week following the arrests, is a mere eye-wash as the killings were carried out clearly at the behest of Narendra Modi, the trader lobby and the political big-wigs of the BJP.
CPI(Maoist) statements on Gujarat fake encounter Abhay N 2007
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When I arrived back in the States I wrote to Mr. Murray, the President of McKesson and Roberts and I said, "Here is a receipt for $65,000 I paid f or a two ounce bottle of your eye-wash, and to me it was well worth it."
The World Today 1948
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On these occasions "eye-wash" was extensively applied to the brass, the idea being to keep her attention fixed well to the front by the glare.
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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The best eye-wash for granulated lids and inflammation of the eyes is composed of camphor, borax and morphine, in the following proportions:
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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