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  • The bike was ground-breaking when it first appeared, I can see that but by the time I was riding bikes in the '80s it seemed like a tea-trolley in comparison to the Japanese competition.

    [triumph bonneville] just for the hell of it 2009

  • The dire old clutter of pensioned-off standard lamps, rocking - chair, pictures, tin trunk, tiger skin, bed headboard, tea-trolley

    Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987

  • She was followed by her husband, who pushed a tea-trolley loaded with scones, cakes and jam.

    My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

  • Now it will be an umbrella, now a silver-rimmed flower-vase, at another time a tea-trolley.

    Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958

  • As the tea-trolley rattled its way through civil service corridors, two years of hard work by a dedicated team of lawyers tasked with advising the Lord Chancellor on necessary reforms to civil justice was biting the dust.

    British Blogs 2009

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