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  • If you're lucky enough to have a brewer such as a 1 liter French Press or any other 1 quart unit, you'll be happy to know that a full blade grinder's worth of beans will weigh out to right around 60 to 70 grams depending on degree of roast.

    Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico 2009

  • If you're lucky enough to have a brewer such as a 1 liter French Press or any other 1 quart unit, you'll be happy to know that a full blade grinder's worth of beans will weigh out to right around 60 to 70 grams depending on degree of roast.

    Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico 2009

  • Not so much a profession as the organ grinder's monkeys ...

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  •   An organ — grinder's monkey stole the last of my francs this morning.

    Weld (St. Petersburg Blues) Andrew Trent 2010

  • And registered Independents like me recognized that there really is no difference between an organ grinder's monkey, a timid donkey, and an aging well-trained elephant.

    Mike Papantonio: We Can't Just Be Obama Cheerleaders 2009

  • I asked the internet for advice once, and learned that touching the grinder's neck will make him stop.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • On the way to the church for the Christmas play, the girl puts a coin in the organ grinder's box and invites him to come to her play.

    Three Months From Today Mary Lee 2007

  • Many of the musical men aboard both ships had complained about the mechanical music player — its range of sounds emanating from the turning metal disks was almost precisely that of a corner organ grinder's instrument — but these notes were unmistakable.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • On the way to the church for the Christmas play, the girl puts a coin in the organ grinder's box and invites him to come to her play.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Mary Lee 2007

  • AV looks like an organ grinder's monkey with those monkey ears and his big mouth!

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday 2006

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