three-cornered

• “Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.”

  SIWASH

• “The three-cornered needle jammed in the damp leather, and he suspended work for the moment.”

  SIWASH

• “Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bubble in the Bathtub

• “These things mean far more to mean than catchy campaign slogans or three-cornered hats ever could.”

  The Huffington Post: Heather Taylor-Miesle: Tea Partiers: Be Careful What You Wish For

• “It was a “three-cornered struggle” with Russian revolutionaries against counterrevolutionaries and national minorities resisting both.20 And this shorthand leaves out a fourth corner, that of the Black Army led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.21 This stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bloodlust

• “And if you're trying to guess who comes out ahead in this three-cornered game of political chess—congressional Republicans, congressional Democrats or the president—it probably will be the president.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hope Fades for Much Good to Come From Deficit Fight

• “Then they sat down to a three-cornered game of 'cut-throat,' -- a proceeding which did away with all casus belli for future hostilities, and permitted the victor to depart on a most important mission.”

  THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE

• “Most iconic is the mouthless bauta , typically worn with a three-cornered hat and black cloak, which turns every wearer into an impersonator of Casanova.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Masked Charms of Venice's Carnival

• “Play No. 2 is a three-cornered love story with symbolically hallucinatory interludes in which Prior (Christian Borle) and Louis (Zachary Quinto), a gay couple, come unstuck when Prior develops full-blown AIDS and Louis, unable to accept his lover's physical decline, embarks on an affair with Joe.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Seven Ways of Looking at 'Angels'

• “The Egyptian protesters of 2011 seem a lot more enlightened, and they look so much better without those three-cornered hats.”

  The Huffington Post: Dave Astor: Trying to Thwart Change in the 13 Colonies and Egypt

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