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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
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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.
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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
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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
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New linoleum had been laid down over half the floor, and marks of the paint-brush were visible on the ceiling.
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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
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He is predominantly left-handed and holds his pencil or paint-brush in a fist-like grip.
Archive 2007-09-01 appleleaf 2007
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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
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She looks preternaturally solemn; as does St. Luke, who is eying his paint-brush with an intense ominous mystical look.
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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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