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  • Another venture, Poetry Stones—a kit that let crafters frame their messages in quick-set cement—was initially successful but tailed off quickly.

    After the One-Hit Wonder Jeff May 2011

  • Another venture, Poetry Stones—a kit that let crafters frame their messages in quick-set cement—was initially successful but tailed off quickly.

    After the One-Hit Wonder Jeff May 2011

  • Log in to Reply juiceyfruit (UID#1624) on November 2nd, 2009 at 1: 03 am one day i am going to raid a model train shop for all of their little tiny figures and place them strategically across town with the help of a tube of quick-set epoxy, and see if anyone notices.

    Busy | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Siesta iDock is compact, but sounds great and includes: A large auto-dimming display; four quick-set alarms; sleep and snooze timers and 15 DAB/FM presets.

    MP3 - Fareastgizmos.com 2010

  • Siesta iDock is compact, but sounds great and includes: A large auto-dimming display; four quick-set alarms; sleep and snooze timers and 15 DAB/FM presets.

    October 2009 - Fareastgizmos.com 2009

  • The squirrels say the odds are much greater for one of them to be hit and smushed by a speeding motor vehicle than for a driver of one of said speeding motor vehicles to be injured and/or killed by a flying rake embedded in quick-set cement.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • You are of opinion, then, that by insulting and plundering the good man, for surrounding his garden and farmyard with a quick-set hedge, he has offended against natural law.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • William A. Mitchell never became a household name, but most households you can name have something of his in it — Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O, powdered egg whites for cake mix.

    Tastemaker With a Sweet Tooth 2004

  • William A. Mitchell never became a household name, but most households you can name have something of his in it — Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O, powdered egg whites for cake mix.

    Tastemaker With a Sweet Tooth 2004

  • But others were of different sort; simple fellows unused to pain, accustomed to the bill-hook, perhaps, or rasp of the knuckles in a quick-set hedge, or making some to-do at breakfast, over a thumb cut in sharpening a scythe, and expecting their wives to make more to-do.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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