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  • The coffee-grinder went into action, so they couldnt really continue the conversation until it was finished.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • The coffee-grinder went into action, so they couldnt really continue the conversation until it was finished.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • The coffee-grinder went into action, so they couldnt really continue the conversation until it was finished.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Patrick Belford, a professional multimedia designer, just sent me a link for his 3D Curta Calculator Simulation (needs Shockwave/Flash) inspired by Clifford Stoll's recent Scientific American feature about the 'coffee-grinder' - almost the last, and certainly the most elegant, flowering of mechanical calculator technology.

    Curta and other simulations Ray Girvan 2004

  • Patrick Belford, a professional multimedia designer, just sent me a link for his 3D Curta Calculator Simulation (needs Shockwave/Flash) inspired by Clifford Stoll's recent Scientific American feature about the 'coffee-grinder' - almost the last, and certainly the most elegant, flowering of mechanical calculator technology.

    Archive 2004-02-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Our coffee-grinder was borrowed from a BISTRO near by, and our dustbin and brooms from the concierge.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • A derrick winch, even a coffee-grinder in the galley might provide all the impulse it requires. '

    Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986

  • Imagine a coffee-grinder into which have been thrown Greek,

    As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

  • "Shouldn't dream of risking it, old dear," replied John Fanshawe pleasantly, "not on your venerable coffee-grinder anyhow -- not until she gets a navigator."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various

  • Our coffee-grinder was borrowed from a bistro near by, and our dustbin and brooms from the concierge.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

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