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Examples
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With her back turned, she quickly poured in the powder,
Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005
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South Africa's jails are overflowing with awaiting trial prisoners and minor offenders, some of who have been incarcerated for stealing a pair of shoes or a tin of baby milk powder,
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Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
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Staudinger appointed him as his assistant, and they together entered the quite unexplored field of the active constituents - named by them pyrethrins - of Dalmatian insect powder,
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Begging for blankets and knives, but mostly for muskets and powder,
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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Pankey '; who, plucky as a lion, was in the forefront all through, his uniform cap tumbled off and his face all blackened with powder,
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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For the use of the infantry there were 7749 musket flints, 1825 pounds of musket powder,
Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 Marcus L. Hansen
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Having now explained how the knowledge came to be arrived at that the aforementioned compound of highest grade nitro-glycerine and highest grade gun-cotton would constitute the best basis for a smokeless powder,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various
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For four: 3 pints flour, 3 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder,
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
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