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  • The use of wind farms, especially the clothes-line type device of wind farms is a great idea in regards to power generation using wind.

    Towering on the Horizon: Wind Farms and Energy Independence 2009

  • In any case, what we all wanted to know -- who is Sanchez's favorite pro wrestler, and why did he decide to go clothes-line instead of suplex -- was left unanswered.

    Gaby Sanchez says Morgan violated unwritten rule 2010

  • Later Wednesday night, the Nats and Nyjer Morgan engaged in that benches-clearing, clothes-line filled, ripped-uniform brawl, in which giant blobs of testosterone came flying out of your television set and sat there oozing all over your floor.

    Rob Dibble on the Nyjer Morgan brawl 2010

  • Now, he was hanging on a chain, rolling down a clothes line on a clothes-line pully, right towards a collision course with a sleeping bear.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • The part where their laundry comings flying through the door on a clothes-line was convincing!

    Coming Soon to a Theater Near You, if You Demand It - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • He just moved and began talking about using a clothes-line but said that he thought that there was a city ordinance against it.

    Clotheslines James Gurney 2009

  • And here, just for fun, is the longhorn beetle now sitting on my verandah clothes-line.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Glenda Larke 2008

  • And here, just for fun, is the longhorn beetle now sitting on my verandah clothes-line.

    Seasonal doggerel Glenda Larke 2008

  • In about a minute everybody was saying it; so away they went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to, to do the hanging with.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • In about a minute everybody was saying it; so away they went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to, to do the hanging with.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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