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  • He has said that you could no more expect true socialism from the present Labour Party than scrambled eggs from a sewingmachine.

    Bernard Shaw and the Empire 1930

  • The cool, bare houses of poles and palm thatch contained little except hammocks and a few simple cooking utensils; and often a clock or sewingmachine, or Winchester rifle, from our own country.

    X. To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 1914

  • When he’d prop me atlas against his goose and light our two candles for our singers duohs on the sewingmachine.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Rotary Club of South River - East Brunswick, in conjunction with Pedals for Progress, held a bicycle and sewingmachine collection at East Brunswick High School.

    East Brunswick Sentinel 2009

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