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What makes 'This is a three-inch piece of chalk true' is this chalk's actually being three inches.
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What makes 'This is a three-inch piece of chalk true' is this chalk's actually being three inches.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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Meder scraped the blood from the chalk's surface with the athame and put away the remainder of the lump.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Yes, sir; she wa'n't no more like de Meriky dat went away jes 'a few munts ago dan chalk's like cheese.
The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878
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And he's no more like it than chalk's like cheese.
Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I could show it you in a minute, only the chalk's a little blunt."
Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 1865
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Lane Dean, Jr., with his green rubber pinkie finger, sat at his Tingle table in his chalk's row in the rotes group's wiggle room and did two more returns, then another one, then flexed his buttocks and held to a count of ten and imagined a warm pretty beach with mellow surf, as instructed in orientation the previous month.
The New Yorker 2009
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Lane Dean, Jr., with his green rubber pinkie finger, sat at his Tingle table in his chalk's row in the rotes group's wiggle room and did two more returns, then another one, then flexed his buttocks and held to a count of ten and imagined a warm pretty beach with mellow surf, as instructed in orientation the previous month.
The New Yorker 2009
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He could hear the squeak of the cart boys 'carts someplace off at a distance, where the vinyl panels between his chalk's Tingles and the blond Oriental fellow's chalk one row up blocked the sight of them, the kids with the carts.
The New Yorker 2009
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He could hear the squeak of the cart boys 'carts someplace off at a distance, where the vinyl panels between his chalk's Tingles and the blond Oriental fellow's chalk one row up blocked the sight of them, the kids with the carts.
The New Yorker 2009
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