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  • I lounged alone on the hospital bed with my host while his rakelike fingernails unthinkingly caressed the tape recorder lump on my thigh, taking it for some sort of vibrator, no doubt.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I lounged alone on the hospital bed with my host while his rakelike fingernails unthinkingly caressed the tape recorder lump on my thigh, taking it for some sort of vibrator, no doubt.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I lounged alone on the hospital bed with my host while his rakelike fingernails unthinkingly caressed the tape recorder lump on my thigh, taking it for some sort of vibrator, no doubt.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • But he wouldn’t have known to use the rakelike paddle to catch fish.

    Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010

  • We had two backpacks with food and fishing equipment, including Jean-Marc’s homemade “mop spear,” a rakelike contraption that he had fashioned from a mop and a fork in order to collect sea urchins.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

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