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								Just gather lots of very small dry tinder (dry grass, very small sticks) and an armload of pencil-sized sticks and then your larger wood. Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter. 2009 
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								Just gather lots of very small dry tinder (dry grass, very small sticks) and an armload of pencil-sized sticks and then your larger wood. Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter. 2009 
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								Jory weighing less than three pounds, a pencil-sized endotracheal tube strapped to her pale rosebud mouth, bunny-shaped EKG pads over her chest and an IV line taped into her scalp. Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010 
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								Sap dribbled and cascaded from pencil-sized boreholes all over its trunk, darkening it with glistening syrup that was plainly irresistible to the insects. Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009 
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								Sap dribbled and cascaded from pencil-sized boreholes all over its trunk, darkening it with glistening syrup that was plainly irresistible to the insects. Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009 
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								Forget about the heart; it has a pencil-sized hole in it. previous - next nessus Diary Entry nessus 2007 
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								A little silk pencil-sized case that I'll use for knitting notions: Thrift Store Finds The Raven 2007 
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								As he pulled a pencil-sized splinter of bookcase out of his thigh, Tommy thought that he might have been a little hasty about yelling at Jody for turning him into a vampire. You Suck Moore, Christopher, 1957- 2007 
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								His fiddle skittered into life and, heart pounding and hands fumbling, I made myself ready: trousers pulled on beneath my dark skirts, a length of brown silk rope around my waist, tiny binoculars, a pencil-sized torch. The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006 
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								Ana took her own, pencil-sized flashlight with her as she let herself out of the sleeping building. A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999 
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