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  • So, I hastily posted my instructions: Okay, if you have a colander -- better yet, a sieve -- and a really good-quality paper towel or a clean flour-sack dish towel you can make your own pour-over right into the cup or whatever container you can balance your contraption on.

    Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011

  • Leclaire brought the grub, tied up in a flour-sack, and put it on board.

    The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 2010

  • So, I hastily posted my instructions: Okay, if you have a colander -- better yet, a sieve -- and a really good-quality paper towel or a clean flour-sack dish towel you can make your own pour-over right into the cup or whatever container you can balance your contraption on.

    Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011

  • So, I hastily posted my instructions: Okay, if you have a colander -- better yet, a sieve -- and a really good-quality paper towel or a clean flour-sack dish towel you can make your own pour-over right into the cup or whatever container you can balance your contraption on.

    Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011

  • For'ard, as the boat's head paid off, we set a patch of sail about the size of a flour-sack.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • So, I hastily posted my instructions: Okay, if you have a colander -- better yet, a sieve -- and a really good-quality paper towel or a clean flour-sack dish towel you can make your own pour-over right into the cup or whatever container you can balance your contraption on.

    Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011

  • Mark Twain felt he could not publicly apologize because he was involved with those “other two quarrels,” one still unidentified, the other a gratuitous fight he had picked with the Virginia City Union over a related event, the Reuel Colt Gridley flour-sack auctioning campaign.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Mark Twain felt he could not publicly apologize because he was involved with those “other two quarrels,” one still unidentified, the other a gratuitous fight he had picked with the Virginia City Union over a related event, the Reuel Colt Gridley flour-sack auctioning campaign.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • With no cosmetics, flour-sack dresses under battered cardigans, two hideous wigs that are a far cry from Mame and wrinkles that took hours in the makeup department, in this 218th production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ms. Lansbury is merely marvelous.

    Angie, Baby! 2004

  • Indian, travelling with a frizzy half-white woman who looked as if she had fallen into a flour-sack, her face was so deep in powder, and her frizzy hair and her brown silk dress so douched with the white dust of it.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

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