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She has walked numerous picket-lines with us in Southern California.
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Who in the trade union movement hasn't called on fellow workers in other unions to join them in rallies during struggles with an employer, or asked them to join sparse picket-lines?
Stop Complaining about Right-Wing Protests! The Left Should be (Re)Learning How It��s Done 2009
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Whichever flavor of Kool Aid you're drinking, it doesn't really matter, because once you see beyond the political picket-lines, you realize we're basically arguing about the same thing.
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It was no easy matter to handle them on the picket-lines, and to provide for feeding and watering; and the efforts to shoe and ride them were at first productive of much vigorous excitement.
The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992
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The Shienarans went about getting fires started and setting picket-lines for the horses with a smooth economy of effort born of long experience.
The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990
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The horses along the picket-lines there was more than one row were barely realized masses in the darkness, heads down.
The Eye of the World Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1990
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All the same, I had to go stumbling over to the picket-lines.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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In the picket-lines, my horse (I had called him Lion) had been well cared for.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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"May I ask if Company K has been on duty at the picket-lines to-day?" asked Miss Elliott of Captain Fraser, who had just sauntered up to her chair.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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The out-station work among the Indians is a feature almost peculiar to the Indian Missions of the A.M.A. These stations are the picket-lines pushed forward into the Reservations beyond the line of established schools and missions.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 Various
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