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Or else I unhinge language, dislocate it, as though I were a gnome in a museum tilting picture-frames for a good laugh, just enough to discompose the patrons.
CARAMBOLES by ALEXANDER DICKOW EILEEN 2009
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The floorspace was very restricted, because all round the walls were stacked innumerable dusty picture-frames.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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This afternoon I cut & glued picture-frames for my 8″x10″‘’s of North Minneapolis before the riots.
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This afternoon I cut & glued picture-frames for my 8″x10″‘’s of North Minneapolis before the riots.
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The floorspace was very restricted, because all round the walls were stacked innumerable dusty picture-frames.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Baroness sprung back into their picture-frames, as clowns go through a clock in a pantomime.
Burlesques 2006
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Baroness sprung back into their picture-frames, as clowns go through a clock in a pantomime.
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"I should say your intruders did not know that, going by the universal disturbance of the picture-frames."
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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"I should say your intruders did not know that, going by the universal disturbance of the picture-frames."
Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005
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The chair-covers became slightly soiled; the carpets slightly worn; coal dust, mud, soot, fog, vapours of cigar smoke and wine and meat accumulated in crevices, in cracks, in fabrics, on the tops of picture-frames, in the scrolls of carvings.
Flush: a biography 2004
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