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During sieges it wasn't uncommon to see the enemy AI drop their siege weapons and run around confused in front of your city walls whilst your archers turned them into pin-cushions.
Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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During sieges it wasn't uncommon to see the enemy AI drop their siege weapons and run around confused in front of your city walls whilst your archers turned them into pin-cushions.
The Total War Series Adam Whitehead 2010
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On the few illustrations that I have found showing sewing people or tailors, I could not find any pin-cushions.
Pincushion-in-the-box a stitch in time 2009
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Like heavily weighted sewing cushions "Nähsteine" and good, firm pin-cushions, no modern techniques used in making them, of course.
Acquiring a product line a stitch in time 2009
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On the few illustrations that I have found showing sewing people or tailors, I could not find any pin-cushions.
Archive 2009-09-01 a stitch in time 2009
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Like heavily weighted sewing cushions "Nähsteine" and good, firm pin-cushions, no modern techniques used in making them, of course.
Archive 2009-06-01 a stitch in time 2009
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But with a little patience, these toys will find a purposeful second life – when little hands outgrow these endearing figures they will make perfectly adorable pin-cushions.
BKLYN SNEAK PEEK: Lotta Jansdotter Soft Toys | Inhabitat 2008
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We are great in obsolete seals, and in faded pin-cushions, and in rickety camp-stools, and in exploded cutlery, and in miniature vessels, and in stunted little telescopes, and in objects made of shells that pretend not to be shells.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.
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Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.
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