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  • "It's unfair, I think, that Google made some wide, paint-brush decisions here in their algorithm that didn't take into account a site like ChaCha that does have unique content created at fairly high cost," he said.

    Google Revamps to Fight Cheaters Amir Efrati 2011

  • Dressed in the flowing white robes of his ancestors and with his hair tied up in a traditional knot, Mr. Sakrapee dabbed his paint-brush in blood collected from thousands of Red Shirt protesters, drawing symbols and lighting incense as television crews jostled for position.

    Thai Premier Offers Deal, but Protests Will Leave Scar 2010

  • Six-year-old Alena, with the paint-brush black hair and the chin dimple and the jeans rolled halfway up her calves, Alena imitating our eighty-four-year-old neighbor's smoker voice, Alena whizzing through the kitchen on roller skates with pink wheels -- Alena was the irreplaceable one.

    Amazing Novel About Guilt and Grief..... Stephanie 2009

  • Six-year-old Alena, with the paint-brush black hair and the chin dimple and the jeans rolled halfway up her calves, Alena imitating our eighty-four-year-old neighbor's smoker voice, Alena whizzing through the kitchen on roller skates with pink wheels -- Alena was the irreplaceable one.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Stephanie 2009

  • New linoleum had been laid down over half the floor, and marks of the paint-brush were visible on the ceiling.

    The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

  • He is predominantly left-handed and holds his pencil or paint-brush in a fist-like grip.

    Old Report Cards & other funny things appleleaf 2007

  • He is predominantly left-handed and holds his pencil or paint-brush in a fist-like grip.

    Archive 2007-09-01 appleleaf 2007

  • The object of their search was soon after disclosed to view — a great lumbering form of inky blackness, which looked as if it had never known the touch of a paint-brush for fifty years.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • She looks preternaturally solemn; as does St. Luke, who is eying his paint-brush with an intense ominous mystical look.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Over one end of it rose, tapering like a walking-stick, a factory chimney, while at the other end, as well as in the middle, rose belfries, one of which had a gilded steeple, and the other one a steeple either green or blue, but looking black in the moonlight, and shaped like a ragged paint-brush.

    Through Russia 2003

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