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  • The annual value of the silk manufactures is estimated at £3,300,000, employing 40,000 workmen and 280,000 spindles (broches), of which 165,000 work organzines and trames, and 114,000 work the silk intended for crapes and gauze ribbons.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • They made a certain number of broches every night.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

  • Then he did do take broches of iron and put them through their ears and through their nostrils, and after did do smite off their heads.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Then the provost enforced himself to draw him unto his faith by fair words, and when he might not bring him thereto he did do raise him on a gibbet; and so much beat him with great staves and broches of iron, that his body was all tobroken in pieces.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • Ellas precisan de capital para comprar productos o materia prima, es decir compraran; variedad de cosméticos, dulces, galletas, arroz, telas, broches y otros.

    Kiva Loans 2009

  • Ye are red wud,” said Linklater; then shouted to his assistant in the kitchen, “Look to the broches, ye knaves — pisces purga — Salsamenta fac macerentur pulchre — I will make you understand Latin, ye knaves, as becomes the scullions of King James.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Ye are red wud, "said Linklater; then shouted to his assistant in the kitchen," Look to the broches, ye knaves -- _pisces purga_ -- _Salsamenta fac macerentur pulchre_ -- I will make you understand Latin, ye knaves, as becomes the scullions of King James. "

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

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