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Examples
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Likewise, he bought a string of horse-hair bridles from a convict in a Western penitentiary, who spread the good news until it seemed to Daylight that half the convicts in that institution were making bridles for him.
Chapter V 2010
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A partition creates a separate section where I find my bed, a comfortable affair replete with fluffy pillow, crisp sheets, and an Arabian horse-hair blanket.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise, Part 4 Richard Bangs 2011
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A partition creates a separate section where I find my bed, a comfortable affair replete with fluffy pillow, crisp sheets, and an Arabian horse-hair blanket.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise, Part 4 Richard Bangs 2011
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By then, he was a pillar of the scientific establishment, a tall, striking figure with, as he put it, “two unrequitedly bushy eyebrows” and nostrils with “horse-hair bursts of an old Edwardian sofa.”
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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I did so want just you and the ranch and Bob and Wolf and those horse-hair bridles.
Chapter XXIV 2010
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On a third occasion, she was paddled for sporting a horse-hair mustache.
Christina Heppel Marcelle Heath 2011
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At the Association school, these POWs learned to read, write, weave baskets, weave braid for straw hats, weave horse-hair for watch chains, and carve wood.
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Among them are three depictions curators Audrey Yoshiko Seo and Stephen L. Addiss hung side by side: Each features a horse-hair whisk, symbolizing the teacher, entwined around a dragon staff, representing the enlightened student.
Drawn Toward Enlightenment Lee Lawrence 2010
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A lumpy horse-hair mattress, a rattling, leaky window, a wonky table propped up with a couple of books? such things are tolerated, even enjoyed.
Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010
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Shovels and picks and little horse-hair brushes are scattered carelessly around, but all firmly attached to the display.
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