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Examples
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Gabriel had backed Annabel up until the newelpost at the base of the stairs was pressing into her back and his nose was maybe a quarter of an inch from hers.
THE VOW Linda Lael Miller 1998
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Someone — Campion suspected Clarrie — had fixed an old brass four-pronged candlestick on the flat top of the newelpost.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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Someone — Campion suspected Clarrie — had fixed an old brass four-pronged candlestick on the flat top of the newelpost.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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His hand grasped the newelpost and gripped it so firmly that he seemed less to walk than by one despairing effort to lift an inert body to the first step.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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He watched me quizzically from a position by the newelpost, as I rang off.
The Confession Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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