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  • I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold-miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • | Private Reply can some one tell me where travis dyer's office/business is located? does his import brokerage have a name?

    Page 2 2009

  • | Private Reply can some one tell me where travis dyer's office/business is located? does his import brokerage have a name?

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  • White in particular occupied a different place in the dyer's palette, one with analogies both to grounding stages in painting practice and to the use of paper substrate to represent white. reference reference

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • He outlined a theory of coloration without resorting to phlogiston at all, depending instead on the dyer's tradition that explained mordant action as the basis for the chemistry of coloration.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • *From a dyer's point of view, rayon is a natural fiber, cellulose.

    More on Fabric - A Dress A Day 2006

  • There was a wall made of cheeses arranged like open brick – work, and two cauldrons full of oil, bigger than those of a dyer's shop, served for cooking fritters, which when fried were taken out with two mighty shovels, and plunged into another cauldron of prepared honey that stood close by.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Quick, I will get me a yellow tunic from the dyer's.

    Lysistrata 2000

  • The stench was not quite appalling; the horrible odors from both the tanner's and the dyer's district overwhelmed the local effluvia.

    The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • As soon as the King heard the dyer's story, he was wroth with exceeding wrath and said to him, "Keep this secret."

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

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