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Examples
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Not a cherry-stone, said my father, — he may as well batter away his means upon that, as any thing else, —
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It would not have been a cherry-stone the worse, answered Dr.Slop. —
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It would not have been a cherry-stone the worse, answered Dr.Slop. —
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Not a cherry-stone, said my father, — he may as well batter away his means upon that, as any thing else, —
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However, the Prince cracked the cherry-stone, but everyone laughed when he saw it contained only its own kernel.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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He has not the condensing power of Shakspeare, who squeezed meaning into a phrase with an hydraulic press, but he could carve a cherry-stone with any of the _concellisti_, and abounds in imaginative quaintnesses that are worthy of Donne, and epigrammatic tersenesses that remind us of Fuller.
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She takes it into her head to squeeze a cherry-stone between her thumb and first finger and makes it pop-slap! into her husband's face!
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How foolish after all were my cherry-stone theories of taste and temperament before that uncalculating thing which sways a world and builds a Taj Mahal!
The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Puritan was not a pretty head carved on a cherry-stone, but a Colossus cut from the rock, huge, grim, but awe-inspiring, fortifying to the soul if not warming to the heart.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various
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The writer has a cherry-stone in which is coiled up an insect, best known as the sowbug.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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