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  • Thankfully the smell of the two burlapped bushels of green chiles we picked up in Hatch purified everything in our rental car.

    from the comments | clusterflock 2009

  • But Chloe had taken no note of the personnel of the scowmen, nor of the fact that the freight of the head scow consisted only of pieces that obviously contained provisions, together with her own tent and sleeping outfit, and several burlapped pieces marked with the name "MacNair."

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • So, throughout the days of the journey, the man gazed with avarice upon the piles of burlapped pieces, while his brain devised the scheme.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • At the mouth of La Biche a half-dozen burlapped pieces were removed from a _cache_ in a thicket of balsam and added to the outfit.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • Edward R. Hunters in the new roadster, the teas in the burlapped studio with Sarah Farraday, the meetings of the Ladies 'Aid and the Tuesday Club where she gave gay little talks and readings and vague old ladies asked her gently if she was still going on with her literary work.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • But Sarah, in the burlapped studio, between piano pupils, was aghast and bitter.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • Farraday, her earnest, blonde face a little lined and sharpened, had more piano pupils than she could possibly manage; two of her older girls were taking the beginners for her, and there was a recital almost every month in the burlapped studio where once the chubby driving horses had been housed.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • She bowled Sarah smoothly back to the burlapped studio in time for the eleven-twenty pupil.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • By the middle of September such household goods as the Daltons had planned to take with them were packed, burlapped, crated, and labeled.

    The Tangled Threads 1894

  • From 2 'to 15' we have inventory balled and burlapped.

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