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								If the book has many single leaves, or illustrations, it is sometimes necessary to whip-stitch each signature before sewing. 
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								Broadway just five days before Barney Oakes says he found you stalled in the trail north of Barstow; and that you had been pinched pretty regularly every whip-stitch for the last six months, and were a familiar and unwelcome figure in downtown traffic and elsewhere. The Trail of the White Mule B. M. Bower 1905 
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								Rudolph over to town every whip-stitch on errands when a telephone A Fool and His Money George Barr McCutcheon 1897 
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								While I were lyin thar, balancin 'accounts with t'other world, and afore I had all my figgers made out to see how things' ud stand, I hearn suthin 'scrambulatin' in the leaves, and snortin 'uvry whip-stitch like he smelt suthin' he didn't adzackly like. 
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								Where sold he bargains, whip-stitch, kiss my a-- e, The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665 
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								Using your hand-sewing needle and matching thread, doubled thread, whip-stitch the lengthwise edges of the arms, all the way down the sideseams of the top. Design*Sponge Blair Stocker of wise craft 2009 
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								Using your hand-sewing needle and matching thread, doubled thread, whip-stitch the lengthwise edges of the arms, all the way down the sideseams of the top. Design*Sponge 2009 
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								Through all my winces and vulgarity, she watched the pain-giver whip-stitch my digit through all the plasma and ooey gooey redness. unknown title 2009 
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								Through all my winces and vulgarity, she watched the pain-giver whip-stitch my digit through all the plasma and ooey gooey redness. unknown title 2009 
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								Never have I seen such artful pinking silhouette, and the whip-stitch is positively ROCKIN’! Regretsy – Rugrat 2010 
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