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Examples
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The police said that the bomber, wrapped in a shuttle-cock burqa, wanted to attack on a military check post.
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Verdurin and I, possess an example and which is one of those shuttle-cock masterpieces of ornamented paper upon which, in the reign of Louis XV accounts were delivered, with its title-head representing a raging sea swarming with ships, a sea with waves which had the appearance of an illustration in the Edition des
Time Regained 2003
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On the fine summer evenings, at the time when the close streets are empty, when the servants are playing shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened his window and leaned out.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Barnstaple was a sort of shuttle-cock during the Civil War.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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Rudolph was very happy, playing with these beautiful and ingenious toys: he thought them more entertaining than marbles, or battledore and shuttle-cock.
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins
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The last of these shuttle-cock moves occurred on July 31, from our field at Pont Asquin back to St. Hilaire, whose billets few of us were anxious to revisit.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose
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Numerous thin threads of equal length, collected together, are competent to bear, from the strength of numbers, the constant rolling of the shuttle-cock over them.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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For a long series of years this post of Port Royal was the bone of contention between the French and English; the fort, being held for a time by one power, then by the other, representing the shuttle-cock when these contending nations battled at her doors.
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"The girl has met her match, for she has played shuttle-cock with all the hearts in the village," said Monsieur Chouteau.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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"The girl has met her match, for she has played shuttle-cock with all the hearts in the village," said Monsieur Chouteau.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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