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Examples
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The site's popularity may also be a reaction to the slightly sour, rummage-sale feel that taints eBay, progenitor of the modern microbusiness.
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Miss Hopkins sailed into Hynds House on a perfect afternoon, to discuss with us a proposed rummage-sale which was to benefit the heathen.
A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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A military rummage-sale was held at King William's Town, and at this I noticed a "condemned" commissariat wagon, which seemed (barring that it wanted a coat of paint) to have nothing whatever the matter with it.
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The art debate has its roots in Mr. Norsigian's purchase of the box of negatives, a rummage-sale find that took on a new light when he later noticed in an Adams biography that certain features of the plate-glass negatives he bought, which depict California landscape scenes from Carmel, Yosemite and around San Francisco, seemed to match events in in Adams's life.
NYT > Home Page By REYHAN HARMANCI 2010
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A windowless room with rummage-sale décor does not typically draw teenagers on a Saturday morning.
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Oh, and 'Souq' sounds so much more exotic and exciting than 'rummage-sale', doesn't it?
Qwaider Planet 2009
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Her life has changed dramatically in the last few years, but it hasn't changed who she is; even her newfound knowledge of high fashion strikes the rummage-sale shopper as being highly ironic.
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