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  • You could see the backs of their privet-white necks, fat, with no groove in the nape, where their hair curled in springy wires,

    Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904

  • From the hour when the news of the sinking of the Lusitania came over the wires,

    The World Decision Robert Herrick 1903

  • Inside of ten minutes it was all over the Waldorf and on the wires,

    Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

  • Two tumbler-trays, made of pasteboard, covered with varnished fancy papers and divided by wires,

    American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • "What you have to do," he says as he weaves a ribbon of red felt between the piano wires,

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • "What you have to do," he says as he weaves a ribbon of red felt between the piano wires,

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Niranjan Shakya was electrocuted at Nagla Rathore village when an iron pole of the pandal where a "Bhagwat Katha" was being held came into contact with high tension electric wires,

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • "What you have to do," he says as he weaves a ribbon of red felt between the piano wires,

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Niranjan Shakya was electrocuted at Nagla Rathore village when an iron pole of the pandal where a "Bhagwat Katha" was being held came into contact with high tension electric wires,

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • You can make a Van de Graaf generator at home using an empty drinks can, electrical wires,

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

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