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  • He had had intermittent employment throughout the winter in a sweater's den,

    THE TRAMP 2010

  • Because he often wore wool sweaters with boat-necks, the sweater's threads would get caught in the mortar, would snag, unravel when he moved away.

    Listening to amazing people talk about themselves... James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • "The living in their houses, and in their graves the dead," are challenged by every babe that dies of innutrition, by every girl that flees the sweater's den to the nightly promenade of Piccadilly, by every worked-out toiler that plunges into the canal.

    THE MANAGEMENT 2010

  • That lovely blue sweater's gonna have to go, once his head gets big.

    Who Will The Incredible Hulk Take On Next? « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • The long black hair that had been loose and flowing when I'd left her was now pulled back tight and largely hidden by the sweater's heavy collar.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • Of course, half an hour later they're usually like "Whoa, that sweater's still pretty green, eh?" which I take to mean that they are insane with envy.

    Rainbow Brite Jay 2009

  • My haul: 3 braids from Into the Whirled, 8oz of merino, a sweater's worth of Abundance BFL from Briar Rose, yarn and fibre to make thrummed mitts, a limited edition mug from Jennie The Potter and a niddy noddy.

    October 2009 2009

  • I've been spinning for 2 years and I still haven't attempted a sweater's worth of the same yarn.

    Brown Stuff and Pretty Stuff - And She Knits Too! 2009

  • It wasn't so much the clothes -- a sweater's a sweater, jeans are still jeans -- as the hair, the glasses (big as Jeep windshields!), and the typography and layout of the yearbook itself.

    10/30/07: Voom markens 2007

  • Of course, half an hour later they're usually like "Whoa, that sweater's still pretty green, eh?" which I take to mean that they are insane with envy.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jay 2009

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