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  • The framemaker has a Premium "695" IPack, in two different levels of stiffness, which sells at U.K. retailers from £4,400.

    The Rise of the Designer Bike Benoit Faucon 2011

  • For, as you will doubtless have guessed, the meeting between Jeanne and her lover, so dreaded by the framemaker, had been arranged by Madame Plumet unknown to all, and the damning inscription was also in her handwriting.

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  • The framemaker said the damage would not show once the glass was repaired, and took the picture away again to mend it.

    Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909

  • The framemaker said he could not understand how the accident had happened.

    Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909

  • Next morning he sent for a framemaker and told him to mend the frame as soon as possible, to make the wire strong, and to see that the picture was firmly fixed on the wall.

    Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909

  • Next morning he sent again for the framemaker, and abused him roundly.

    Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Maurice Baring 1909

  • He took it up idly -- and glanced over it -- a note or two in the fashionable feminine scrawl about sittings, a letter from a framemaker, one from his Paris agent, and the usual litter of circulars.

    Madcap George Gibbs 1906

  • For, as you will doubtless have guessed, the meeting between Jeanne and her lover, so dreaded by the framemaker, had been arranged by Madame Plumet unknown to all, and the damning inscription was also in her handwriting.

    The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Complete Ren�� Bazin 1892

  • And -- oh, Maggie -- I was compelled this evening to turn the blameless visit of the framemaker into a venial sin, and that involves a needless wear and tear of conscience.

    The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877

  • After some time the servant came in, and told Trevor that the framemaker wanted to speak to him.

    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Oscar Wilde 1877

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