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Examples
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Using a VERY fine grade sand-paper I took off the remnants of the original net and glue from the sticks.
Attaching the leaf to a 19th century hand fan maryrobinette 2010
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Matthews would have shouted the question to his guests in his sand-paper voice.
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But I didn't know cats had toungues like sand-paper.
amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2003
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And the housemaid came and scrubbed his nose with sand-paper; and once when the Princess
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Why had not Amy a pocket and a rag of sand-paper like resourceful Jimmy Baines?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 Various
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The keeper, who was still polishing away with sand-paper at the elephant's tusks, and who evidently regarded the soldier with great contempt, said to him:
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Here, Pierre, 'he continued to the man who helped him,' he shines enough; take away the breshes, and bring me the sand-paper to rub up his tusks.
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"Well, it's almost time for the choo-choo cars to sand-paper in," remarked Tom a little later, looking at his watch as he and Morse paced the depot platform.
Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Allen Chapman
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If it be desired to give a rounded edge to this taping, plaster or whiting mixed with glue and lamp-black may be laid on thickly, rubbed down with fine sand-paper, and polished, or if the black is left out, the cement may be gilded, after the manner of picture frames.
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The cork being glued evenly over each half of the box, is rubbed down with pumice-stone, and afterwards with sand-paper, to get an even surface and reconcile the joints one with the other.
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