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Blood oozed from the neat, circular drill-hole while Beadie sprinkled coke in the case.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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Blood oozed from the neat, circular drill-hole while Beadie sprinkled coke in the case.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005
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Blood oozed from the neat, circular drill-hole while Beadie sprinkled coke in the case.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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Blood oozed from the neat, circular drill-hole while Beadie sprinkled coke in the case.
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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Coal resource estimates are generally based on drill-hole tests and geological observations.
Chapter 9 2000
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I understand that you drill-hole the kneecap and then run sutures from the kneecap through the tendon?
Press Conference On Clinton Knee Injury ITY National Archives 1997
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Boring using pneumatic drill: diameter of drill-hole ¢ 34 mm.
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The best results in tonnage broken and explosive consumed, if measured by the foot of drill-hole necessary, can be accomplished from hand-drilling and the lighter the machine drill, assuming equal reliability, the nearer it approximates these advantages.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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The lead proved, for a moment, clear as a drill-hole through an at once condensed and magnified bramble-patch, then persisted for a rod or so in vaguer shape, only to break short off, like the other, at a deep, steep pit, full of water black from sap and rot and seepage.
Bushed 1911
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That these rocks came from the vein of the Samson higher up the mountain was also pretty certain, for among them was one pear-shaped boulder of galena ore, standing upright, upon the apex of which rested the immense four-foot slab of stone through which Tom had bored his drill-hole.
The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Chase [Illustrator] Emerson 1887
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