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His watery eyes glanced over the velvet couch, the 3D television set, across from it, the desk with the computer in the corner, the white, wooden cabinet next to the kitchen door, and then they rested on his cuckoo-clock.
Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010
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There is not some cuckoo-clock "voice" waiting inside you to pop out at 12: 00 a.m., sounding like no other clock in the world.
Anis Shivani: Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth 2010
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Regrettably, there has always been a very great deal of xenophobia hidden behind the cuckoo-clock quaintness, particularly in the more rural Germanic cantons.
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Regrettably, there has always been a very great deal of xenophobia hidden behind the cuckoo-clock quaintness, particularly in the more rural Germanic cantons.
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In this regard it's worth comparing the opening scenes of Disney's animated film, in which, bright as a new toy, the cute and evidently harmless Pinocchio dances and sings in an oddly Alpine, cuckoo-clock world — not a sniff of Italy about it — charmingly supported by pussycat and goldfish, to the 2002 acted film adaptation by the Italian (and Tuscan) comic Roberto Benigni.
Knock on Wood Parks, Tim 2009
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Imagine: a genius German cuckoo-clock maker who's let his mainspring go wild.
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But seriously, Freiburg was better than the cuckoo-clock town!
Freiburg C N Heidelberg 2008
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In one particularly bad instance, we passed it up for some cuckoo-clock town in the middle of the Black Forest.
Freiburg C N Heidelberg 2008
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In one particularly bad instance, we passed it up for some cuckoo-clock town in the middle of the Black Forest.
Archive 2008-08-01 C N Heidelberg 2008
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It was predicted by some with cuckoo-clock regularity, disputed by others who crowed loudly when it failed to materialize and, altogether, took on the aspect of some imaginary preoccupation that was the source of a good game.
War And Recession 2008
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