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For example, on the third floor, they have just blown the remainder of the Divisional budget on a new shagpile.
Put Those Bloody Spears Down! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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For a while it was an impossible aspiration, distant and somehow not for people like us - like a stereo or shagpile carpet, but when the time came that they felt confident enough to entertain, pâté would be as proud on the menu as the bottle of Bull's Blood, chambreeing gently on the coffee-table.
How to make pâté 2010
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He crossed his eyes, trying to blur out the frustrated form of Jamie, striding about on the faded brown shagpile in front of him.
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I was out of my seat and pacing round the shagpile.
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The first domestic-grade ICs were already able to oust FIDE†™ s reigning chess champion while still not performing adequately on tasks such as the vacuuming of a shagpile rug.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Just the sight of the youthful Canadian pop star's lustrous shagpile fringe made teenage girls scream at levels not recorded since the Osmonds in the 1970s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Replicated shagpile/Proustian pouffes elicit geysers of tears from unsuspecting famouses
The Guardian World News Sarah Dempster 2010
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Just the sight of the youthful Canadian pop star's lustrous shagpile fringe made teenage girls scream at levels not recorded since the Osmonds in the 1970s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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See how the ball travels as if labouring through a shagpile rug.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Paul Hayward 2009
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By day three we weren't speaking, after a full and frank discussion over a late-night drink revealed seething resentments that had been dormant for years (apparently I'd once hurt her feelings by questioning her choice of new carpet in her front room - well who on earth has shagpile these days?).
unknown title 2009
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