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  • Thus our young lord, with fashion's phrase refin'd,

    The Triumphs of Temper.: A Poem: in Six Cantos. 1812

  • Rather than mas ter­ing the clas sic inter pre ta tion, the recipe in Modernist Cuisine flips it on its head by focus ing on refin ing the fla vors of a roasted bird and apply ing Modernist techniques.

    A Modernist Thanksgiving The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • What is needed is MLS 2.0 — how this will happen is anyones guess, but no refin or zillow on their own can push it. reply jwm4

    Redfin To Change the Rules of Real Estate Sales Michael Arrington 2005

  • KIRKLAND: Yes, but you have got to remember, we came down from something like 3.9 about a month and a half ago to, what, 3.08, and now we're back up to a halfway, so if you're in the housing market or refin market, you're still pretty good shape here.

    CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2003 2003

  • They needed refin-ishing, so I thought it would be fun to paint them black with white pips.

    The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994

  • Syrup of double-refin'd Sugar, a Pound of Sugar and half a Pint of

    Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

  • Water, and boil them 'till they are very tender; drain them well from the Water; then make a Syrup of clarify'd single-refin'd

    Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

  • Stone your Plums, and put them in a large earthen Pot; make a Syrup with a Pound of single-refin'd Sugar and three Pints of Water; or if you have the Syrup the white Plums are dry'd out of, thin it with

    Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

  • Cucumbers; cover them close 'till you see they look green; weigh them, and take their Weight in single-refin'd Sugar clarify'd; to a

    Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

  • Water, and clarify as much single-refin'd Sugar as will cover them very well; when the Syrup is cold put them in, and let them stand four or five Days; dry them out as you use them; and when you take any out to dry, boil them which you leave in the Syrup.

    Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733) Mary Eales

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