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March 9th, 2010 3:21 pm ET isn't it interesting that turner's left-wing cnn will report on a supposed movement nobody has heard of but it took them forever to put a real story, noncondescending, out about the tea party movement? i'm not saying, JUST SAYING!
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KUTCHER: If I beat CNN to a million followers, I will literally go and ding dong ditch Ted turner's house.
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"And if something goes wrong, it's the page turner's fault."
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The handles, however, are usually of softwood, unpolished, and had better be replaced at the turner's.
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Beyond a few packing-cases, a turner's lathe, and a shelf laden with dissected maps of Europe, the interior of the shop is entirely unfurnished.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Extensively used for archery bows, turner's ware, etc.
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There is a good deal of carving, effectively placed and graceful in design and skilfully executed, both on the outside and inside of old houses in the City of Poona; and the balustrades that form the front of the narrow verandahs, which run along so many of the houses with happy effect, afford charming specimens of what the turner's craft can accomplish.
India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin
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Later on, he was transferred to the turner's workshop, where he was taught to make in wood the patterns of those things which he would have to make in metal in the following workshops.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904
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The turner's maid was a heavy sleeper, and Sheppard crept from her garret to the twisted stair in peace.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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In terror lest he should awaken the Master-Side Debtors, he hastened back to the roof, lashed the coverlets together, and, as the city clocks clashed twelve, he dropped noiselessly upon the leads of a turner's house, built against the prison's outer wall.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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