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  • All of which came to pass; and the boat, in the grip of the current, like a river steamer with smoke rising from the two joints of stove-pipe, grounded on shoals, hung up on split currents, and charged rapids and canyons, as it drove deeper into the Northland winter.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Pump's and bolt's don't jam (stove-pipe) young man.

    What are the best rifle and shotgun? 2009

  • Pump's and bolt's don't jam (stove-pipe) young man.

    What are the best rifle and shotgun? 2009

  • The smoke curled up pathetically from the Yukon stove-pipe.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • The smoke curled up pathetically from the Yukon stove-pipe.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • The man addressed as Jim was hanging irresolute halfway to the door, and Will, a burly buffer in a beard and stove-pipe hat, while he laid a hand on my arm, wasn't too sure.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Abe Lincoln had the ears (and the beard, and the stove-pipe hat); Bill Clinton had a nose that glowed red, almost to luminousness, as his allergies assailed him.

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • During the night I heard only the steady song of the river, full of subtle variations played on the rocks, and the occasional bump somewhere deep inside the stove as it cooled and contracted its stove-pipe.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • In the far corner, the stainless-steel stove-pipe rises like a new stem from the rusty little stove.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Under Bush, the wars were used specifically to stove-pipe money up to the richest 1%, while paying soldiers less than the contractors washing socks or running Pizza Hut kiosks in the Green Zone.

    Hannity and Limbaugh: The Sinful Downfall of Broadcasting in the USA 2009

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