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  • During these summers at Box Hill and Eag­le­mont, it must have been a fair­ly basic life­: food cook­ed as best they could over a fire, drought and flies by day, lighting by can­dles at night, beds made from sack­ing, no wifely com­panionsh­ip.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

  • During these summers at Box Hill and Eag­le­mont, it must have been a fair­ly basic life­: food cook­ed as best they could over a fire, drought and flies by day, lighting by can­dles at night, beds made from sack­ing, no wifely com­panionsh­ip.

    Australia's Own School of Landscape Painting Hels 2009

  • Slyly or overtly, it rid-dles our fiction, our television and movies, our advertising.

    Sexual Separatism 2008

  • But the Iraqis are really putting the hammer on the G-dles pigs.

    Think Progress » U.S. Military Officials: Bush Trying To Bribe Us To Support Iraq Escalation 2006

  • I'd have to agree that poodle is FABULOUS. poodles. pooooodles. dles.

    Gross Words Karyn 2006

  • Warm savory sauce, hot enough to steam before the restaurant's precipitous drop in temperature, and posi-tively smoking now, streamed down his costumed ribs in rivulets of messy high-calorie goodness that pooled in pud-dles along his arms.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

  • Two of the bun-dles contained single five-shot revolvers of a type then called (for no rea-son I know) "carvers."

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Policemen at the station closed the gates on Monday night and dles.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • He had told the build - ers that it was for existing and future fiber-optic cable bun - dles and auxiliary electrical lines, but he'd made sure it was wide enough for him to traverse.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Honniko ran her tongue along the dark blue crescent tat - too on the inside of his wrist, so primitive the bamboo nee - dles had left permanent holes in his skin, as if this were the one true way to identify him.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

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