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They've given her ear-drops to treat the problem but it's also necessary to un-plug the ear canal for a while every day to relieve the condition.
Last Weekend of the Olympics cat_macros 2008
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Worst, most horrible ad on TV: Otex ear-drops... it actually makes me feel physically sick.
Die, Die, Die annoying pop-up ad for Gillette DAVID BISHOP 2008
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So give me two pair of gold ankle-rings, a brace of gold bracelets, and pearl ear-drops, with a girdle, a poignard and a seal-ring.
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It's a single amethyst on a gold chain, with amethyst ear-drops to match, and I love them because they're the first thing David gave me after we were engaged.
Farthing 2006
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Along and down the tiny banks, and nodding into one another, even across main channel, hung the brown arcade of ferns; some with gold tongues languishing; some with countless ear-drops jerking, some with great quilled ribs uprising and long saws aflapping; others cupped, and fanning over with the grace of yielding, even as a hollow fountain spread by winds that have lost their way.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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She was invariably clad in a thick and handsome black silk gown, over which she wore all the jewellery she could crowd on her person — huge cameo brooches, ear-drops, rings and bracelets, lockets and chains.
Australia Felix 2003
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The Navajos wear them as ear-drops, by boring them and attaching them to the ear by means of a deer sinew.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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I doubt not his thoughts are a thousand miles hence, among brown-skinned wenches, dressed in crimson robes, and decorated with ponderous ear-drops.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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The child's-nurse had long gold ear-drops and a head-dress of red bandanna.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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For six months she shut herself up: then, hearing nothing of her lover, she reappeared shyly on the promenade, divested of rings, ear-drops and ornaments.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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