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Strep and staph bacteria were infecting their nostrils and lips, and honey-combed crusts stuck in place.
Dr. Jane Aronson: What Does a Bar Mitzvah Have to do With the Fate of Orphans Around the World? Dr. Jane Aronson 2011
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She got a thermal blanket — its colorful honey-combed pattern really messed with my eyes — and brought a book with her.
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Strep and staph bacteria were infecting their nostrils and lips, and honey-combed crusts stuck in place.
Dr. Jane Aronson: What Does a Bar Mitzvah Have to do With the Fate of Orphans Around the World? Dr. Jane Aronson 2011
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The cliff was honey-combed with a labyrinth of subterranean passages which found vent in an opening midway between the pit and where the trench tapped the wall.
THE SUNLANDERS 2010
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Blasting is taking place within a dangerously close distance of honey-combed underground mines by the impoundment dam.
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I found out later the place was honey-combed with sewage pipes, and there were a lot of the Japanese hiding there.
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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The inner part of the bone – called trabecular bone – is a honey-combed looking type of bone that gives structural strength to areas of the bone more prone to fracture.
Low carb diets and copper | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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He stretched his long form on the rough bench inside, gathered his cloak around him, and roused the dull echo of the honey-combed hollow with long loud snores.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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The country round about Bessir was very hilly and rugged, bristling with jagged and honey-combed coralline rocks, and with curious little chasms and ravines.
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In this rhumb the horizon is bounded by El – Harrah, the volcanic region whose black porous lavas and honey-combed basalts, often charged with white zeolite, are still brought down even to the coast to serve as mortars and handmills.
The Land of Midian 2003
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