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Examples
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Claire sets her coffee mug on the oilclothed table and stares at her husband for a minute.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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Its floor was oilclothed and its windows uncurtained -- only Dorothea had arrived at the stage that sighed for prettinesses.
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
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Ed's steps were heard on the oilclothed portion of the staircase.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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She followed him as if she were in a dream, watching him open the door with a latchkey, after a frantic search for that object in all his pockets, tiptoeing after him as, a finger to his lips, a delighted, boyish smile crinkling his eyelids, he led her down the narrow, oilclothed passage.
The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915
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Leaving the room they crossed to the oilclothed passage and went into the dining-room, a small apartment enlivened by an oleograph of Leo
The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915
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"We'll go over there, " Penny suggested, pointing to a [336] roadside diner frequented by workingmen, and when they were seated at the oilclothed table she said forthrightly; "Marcia, quit this nonsense and come home with me.
Space Michener, James 1982
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