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For anyone who appreciates real oratorical skills, like those of Churchill, MLK or Pliny the Elder (you can google all these names, sweetie), it's like having knitting-needles kicked into one's ears over and over again.
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For anyone who appreciates real oratorical skills, like those of Churchill, MLK or Pliny the Elder you can google all these names, sweetie, it's like having knitting-needles kicked into one's ears over and over again.
Kara Vallow: Happy Palintine's Day! A Love Letter From Me to Sarah Kara Vallow 2010
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For anyone who appreciates real oratorical skills, like those of Churchill, MLK or Pliny the Elder (you can google all these names, sweetie), it's like having knitting-needles kicked into one's ears over and over again.
Kara Vallow: Happy Palintine's Day! A Love Letter From Me to Sarah 2010
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You offer her anything — her knitting-needles, a slice of bread-and-butter — what causes the grateful blush with which she accepts the one or the other?
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Under this sprightly picture the lady sate with her knitting-needles.
The Virginians 2006
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But in the case of knitting — that can never be anything but ungraceful; look here — the arms close together, the knitting-needles going up and down — it has a sort of Chinese effect —.
A Doll's House 2006
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But in the case of knitting — that can never be anything but ungraceful; look here — the arms close together, the knitting-needles going up and down — it has a sort of Chinese effect —.
A Doll's House 2006
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‘Eh!’ she repeated, hurriedly, almost irritably plying her knitting-needles.
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Ivanovna looked after him, shook her head, put on her spectacles again, and again took up her comforter ... but more than once sank into thought, and let her knitting-needles fall on her knees.
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Her first confidante was, of course, Griffiths; and, with her assistance, the wool and the worsted, and the knitting-needles, the unfinished vallances and interminable yards of fringe, were put up and rolled out of the way; and it was then agreed that a council should be held, to which her ladyship proposed to invite Lady
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