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  • - Cleaning of upper with a detergent, e.g. a proprietary cleaning fluid or a spirit based solvent,

    Chapter 5 1982

  • Some manufacturers in developing countries use a dressing mixture made of car enamel of the required pigmentation and solvent,

    Chapter 5 1982

  • To show rather than to tell, -- to body forth as in a play how these arise and blend; how the man is developed and recruited, his spirit's descent; how he walks through materials absorbing and conquering them; how he confronts the immensities of time and space; where are the true sources of his power, the soul's real riches, -- that which "adheres and goes forward and is not dropped by death;" how he is all defined and published and made certain through his body; the value of health and physique; the great solvent,

    Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

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