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  • She pawed past three years of track T-shirts, a pilly black cotton turtleneck, four hooded cotton sweatshirts in various shades of gray.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • There is another downside to my pencil affection, or to my eraser addiction anyway: dirty pink pilly eraser detritus.

    Meg Waite Clayton: The Lowly Pencil Meg Waite Clayton 2011

  • All those pink pilly things filling up my world mean the writing is going well.

    Meg Waite Clayton: The Lowly Pencil Meg Waite Clayton 2011

  • She pawed past three years of track T-shirts, a pilly black cotton turtleneck, four hooded cotton sweatshirts in various shades of gray.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • She pawed past three years of track T-shirts, a pilly black cotton turtleneck, four hooded cotton sweatshirts in various shades of gray.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • She pawed past three years of track T-shirts, a pilly black cotton turtleneck, four hooded cotton sweatshirts in various shades of gray.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • Rebelting my pilly sweater, I heard Claire shriek.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • If you were like me, you were a wretched, character-free coward who clung to Glenn Wright's thin arm and shoulder as she also clutched the smelly,pilly, roughblue horror bunny to her chest.

    Clarion Write-A-Thon 2010 2010

  • If you were like me, you were a wretched, character-free coward who clung to Glenn Wright's thin arm and shoulder as she also clutched the smelly,pilly, roughblue horror bunny to her chest.

    Clarion Write-A-Thon 2010 2010

  • Rebelting my pilly sweater, I heard Claire shriek.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • recently had the honor of meeting an award-winning literary sort, a man wry and restrained and overall quite utterly mature, who casually referred to having gone through a phase in his 20s when he’d been “pilly”—that is, when he’d taken a lot of recreational drugs.

    Why Grown-Ups Keep Talking Like Little Kids John McWhorter 2019

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