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Examples
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The opportunity you seized not only to look at art but to be art will be terminally turpentined away.
David Finkle: Just Like Andy Warhol, You Can Adorn a Museum of Modern Art Wall 2009
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Their son came home from college for a weekend of laundry and turpentined every canvas.
Five Uneasy Pieces 2009
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I thought they was making a fool of me when they turpentined my bum.
Wop-She-Ad-It 1997
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A rope was turpentined, and touched with burning match, but the flame spread up and down the whole spiral length of the rope torch, to the infinite vexation of the lighter.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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Of course Jessie could have waxed and turpentined the table better than I; but no one but me, I flatter myself, could have shown the patience and ingenuity necessary for extracting all that ink!
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The little front parlour, which is the old lady's ordinary sitting-room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is covered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yellow muslin; the table-covers are never taken off, except when the leaves are turpentined and bees '- waxed, an operation which is regularly commenced every other morning at half-past nine o'clock -- and the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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