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She was a regular presence during the summers on the saw-dust covered grounds of this tent city that was in many ways an "Occupy Chicago" arts project, attracting positive attention from workers in the neighborhood as well as visitors from across the globe who stopped by to be amazed at the productivity of teens from all across the landscape of Chicago.
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson: I Remember Maggie Daley ... a Muse for the Arts in Chicago Regina Fraser 2011
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She was a regular presence during the summers on the saw-dust covered grounds of this tent city that was in many ways an "Occupy Chicago" arts project, attracting positive attention from workers in the neighborhood as well as visitors from across the globe who stopped by to be amazed at the productivity of teens from all across the landscape of Chicago.
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson: I Remember Maggie Daley ... a Muse for the Arts in Chicago Regina Fraser 2011
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Both were smeared with recent blood, and a quantity of saw-dust strewed around, partly retained and partly obliterated the marks of a very late execution.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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She was breathing heavily; there were tears in her eyes; she was trembling; she was covered with sweat and saw-dust.
Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982
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Bran or saw-dust is effective in stopping the small leaks which cannot be reached by the wedges.
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At Elmira, N.Y., one application of asphalt and saw-dust only, without a finishing dry roll, completed the work; but the band was run through a bath of hot asphalt as it was wound, thus coating its underside also.
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They said that saw-dust should be called wood-dust; and they found out that wood was called tree when it was alive, and tree was called wood when it was dead.
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Each piece of pipe goes directly from the winder to the asphalt rolls, then to an adjacent saw-dust table, then back to the rolls, then to the table again, and then to the dry finishing rolls at the opposite end of the table.
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She got down, and looked about in the saw-dust for it, the audience curiously watching to see what she would do next.
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When the curtain rose there was to be seen a small stage carpeted ankle deep with saw-dust, where Professor Bartholomew purposed to have his horses act; first the part of a school, then of a court room, last
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