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Light buskins, sundry neck laces and bangles, and ladder-shaped gold earrings completed her costume, and she carried a light spear, slim as a wand and needle-tipped.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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The xylem (Fig. 68, _C_, _x_) is made up principally of large empty cells, with pointed ends, whose walls are marked with closely set, narrow, transverse pits, giving them the appearance of little ladders, whence they are called "scalariform," or ladder-shaped markings.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_C_, longitudinal section of the fibro-vascular bundle of the leaf stalk, showing tracheids with ladder-shaped markings, × 150.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Then supporting this ladder-shaped framework over the sick man as he lies in his blanket, knot the blanket up well to it, and so carry him off palanquin-fashion.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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Or, in default of reeds, cut long poles and several short cross-bars, say of two fee long; join these as best you can, so as to make a couple of ladder-shaped frames.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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The city wall is ladder-shaped and regular in shape; its height and some data show it is the wall that forms the castle.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows ariesgogogo 2010
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Composite vase: four hemispherical cups with tall ladder-shaped handle with stepped sides.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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