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  • "The tiny saw had become a crow-bar, and with it you were going back to break into life again."

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • If that means that every taxpayer needs to put a crow-bar into their wallet, then that's just too bad, but really getting off so EASY, for us!

    To Honor those Who Serve | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • So, it's going to take a crow-bar to force their candidate out of the race.

    CT-SEN: It's Official -- Lieberman Rules Out Any Run On GOP Line 2009

  • I have executed your decrees on condemned sinners since I could swing a scourge, lift a crow-bar, or wield this trusty weapon; and who can say I even failed of my first blow, or needed to deal a second?

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • June 30, 2008 at 3:04 pm tru, tru as well. but to get it wrong, just once, bai accident, and ya gotta get the crow-bar and pry me outta ceiling ohai cat……….um be outta yer way inna minnut

    just koolin mah harbles - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Of course, one good titanium crow-bar and their goose would have been cooked, but when he'd seen that Gabrevys hadn't been with their nightmare-riding pursuers — and remembered how feudal Elfhame Bete Noir had seemed — he'd played a hunch that these weren't exactly cutting-edge forward-thinking Unseleighe.

    Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Of course, one good titanium crow-bar and their goose would have been cooked, but when he'd seen that Gabrevys hadn't been with their nightmare-riding pursuers-and remembered how feudal Elfhame Bete Noir had seemed-he'd played a hunch that these weren't exactly cutting-edge forward-thinking Unseleighe.

    Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • He then provided the usual implements: plenty of false keys, a strong crow-bar, technically called a jemmy, an instrument used for cleaning bricks, some spirits and a slight provision of bread and meat.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • Isak is sitting down, holding the crow-bar between his knees, and resting on it like a staff.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • Lisa wedged a hooked crow-bar into a little space in the cover of the manhole and levered it up.

    Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Michael Ledwidge 2003

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