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Walkthrough: you have to put the objects in the blue spots baloon airscrew big nut watering can hand-saw bowling ball wheel leaf frog statue scissors
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obtained which, when vigorously handled, could divide the ligneous fibers of the wood.
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The manufacture of a hand-saw cost infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obtained which, when vigorously handled, could divide the ligneous fibers of the wood.
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I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut through and through; my sword hacked like a hand-saw — ecce signum!
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Exact sizes will depend on the manufacturing equipment being used, and sheets can be cut to the desired size with a hand-saw.
Chapter 6 1997
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When the horn is flattened, as shown in figure II. 6, straight cuts can be made by a hacksaw, a pistol-grip hand-saw, a jigsaw or a band saw.
1. Sawing 1988
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The outfit necessary to perform the operation of grafting is a small hand-saw, a hatchet, a wedge, grafting-knife, and wax to cover the wound.
Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan
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With the hand-saw saw off the limbs to be grafted about midway, then with the hatchet or wedge, cleave an opening in the remaining end of the limb, and entirely across, and deep enough to receive the cion; insert an iron in the cut to hold it open until the cion is placed, then withdraw the iron, and the graft will be held fast.
Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan
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For ordinary building operations there is a material -- a kind of marl-stone called _Adobe_ -- so soft when quarried that it can be cut out in small blocks with a hand-saw, but it hardens considerably on exposure to the air.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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There are several kinds of saws, namely, the common hand-saw, the key-hole saw, and the small-toothed saw.
The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin
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