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  • Since it closed in 1956, it has served mostly as a scavenger's playground, and occasionally as a backdrop for TV shows and films, including the coming "Transformers 3."

    If You Take Street Art Off the Street, Is It Still Art? Matthew Dolan 2011

  • From staples such as coffee and pasta to exotic ice cream, these emporia are a scavenger's Xanadu.

    Anneli Rufus: Eating for Almost Nothing 2009

  • What else but pleasure could generate the passion and imagination expended on designing body-breaking racks and wheels; the iron maiden and the scavenger's daughter; the brain-twisting drugs; and all the techniques of fire, blade, electricity, water, and ice?

    Time for the President to Take an Unequivocal Stand Against Torture Policies 2009

  • Trouble came down right beside him, and both reeves were out of their harness and scrambling as the children — for they were children — gawped up at them with their scavenger's tools hanging forgotten in grubby hands.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • And the scavenger's neck bones crunched between those powerful teeth.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • And the scavenger's neck bones crunched between those powerful teeth.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Tables would have raised the dead out of a scavenger's reach; but where would Grass Giants find wood?

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • Bees didn't leave enough on the bones for it to be worth any scavenger's time to drag them away.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • And the scavenger's neck-bones crunched between those powerful teeth.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • And the scavenger's neckbones crunched between those powerful teeth.

    A Witch Shall Be Born Howard, Robert E. 1975

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