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The door was answered by a massive woman with dyed-blonde hair and a face so covered with broken veins that it looked like an ordnance-survey map.
Death of a Charming Man Beaton, M. C. 1994
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The door was answered by a massive woman with dyed-blonde hair and a face so covered with broken veins that it looked like an ordnance-survey map.
Death of a Charming Man Beaton, M. C. 1994
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According to the ordnance-survey map, the distance is about two and a half miles as the crow flies.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The reader can easily follow my route on the ordnance-survey map; and he will see that the loop described measures not far short of five miles and a half.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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England), American writers have undertaken what one is tempted to call a sociological ordnance-survey of the Republic from Maine to Arizona, from
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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