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  • As the cock, j, is constantly turned on during the operation of the siphon, the air that has been able to accumulate in the lower compartment, A, of the reservoir, h, would finally unprime the siphon by intercepting communication between its two legs.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

  • With the free trader a pelt is a pelt, prime or unprime, it makes no difference.

    Connie Morgan in the Fur Country 1921

  • Their association had raised the bounties, making it profitable for wolfers to hunt even in the summer months when pelts were unprime and valueless; the price for spring pups had been raised to equal the reward posted for adults; and now the association would furnish free poison for all wolfers and advocated its use all through the year.

    The Yellow Horde Charles Livingston Bull 1910

  • From George McGovern's absolutely unprime-time 3: 00 am acceptance speech to Teddy Kennedy's very public avoidance of Jimmy Carter on the big stage, to Bill Clinton's aversion to clocks of any sort, opportunity after opportunity has been wasted.

    The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy 2008

  • From George McGovern’s absolutely unprime-time 3: 00 am acceptance speech to Teddy Kennedy’s very public avoidance of Jimmy Carter on the big stage, to Bill Clinton’s aversion to clocks of any sort, opportunity after opportunity has been wasted.

    A Mile High In Denver 2008

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