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Examples
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Gagnet's V-rack — used horizontally for ribs and vertically for roasts — and pig-tail meat flipper, used to flip meat when the temperature is high, are in constant use.
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To test this, you can use an inexpensive pig-tail electrical tester, which is available at any hardware store for about two dollars.
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You will hear of me then only as of a false pig-tail pendant over eighteen colored suits of clothes; which, I am told, is the swell winter dress of a Chinese gentleman….
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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You will hear of me then only as of a false pig-tail pendant over eighteen colored suits of clothes; which, I am told, is the swell winter dress of a Chinese gentleman….
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Briere, who are interested in the solution of social problems should think so; but you, whose life has been the most useless poetry of the century, — useless because the blood you shed all over Europe, and the horrible sufferings exacted by your colossus, did not prevent France from losing ten departments acquired under the Revolution, — how can you give in to such excessively pig-tail notions, as the idealists say?
Modeste Mignon 2007
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As money was scarce, barter was in order, and one bushel of ashes would buy one yard of pig-tail.
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His stock of goods was purchased at Aurora and consisted of a chest of old Bohea tea, which he sold at one dollar per pound, a quantity of Cavendish tobacco, at three shillings per pound, and two or three rolls of pig-tail tobacco, at three cents per yard, cash.
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As money was scarce, barter was in order, and one bushel of ashes would buy one yard of pig-tail.
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French gray jackets, leathers, red morocco boots, crimson pelisses, brass helmets with leopard-skin and a white plume, and the regulation pig-tail of eighteen inches.
Burlesques 2006
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French gray jackets, leathers, red morocco boots, crimson pelisses, brass helmets with leopard-skin and a white plume, and the regulation pig-tail of eighteen inches.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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