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• Protect the table from homework graffiti, drinking-glass rings, and warm serving dishes with a coat or two of polyurethane.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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• Protect the table from homework graffiti, drinking-glass rings, and warm serving dishes with a coat or two of polyurethane.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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• Protect the table from homework graffiti, drinking-glass rings, and warm serving dishes with a coat or two of polyurethane.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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LEONARD (_goes, and accidentally knocks his drinking-glass from the table_).
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Broichan had been suddenly stricken by an angel sent for the purpose; and as if he had been taking his dram in a modern gin-palace, we are told that the drinking-glass, or glass drinking-vessel, "vitrea bibera," which he was conveying to his lips, was smashed in pieces, and he himself seized with deadly sickness.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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This will make us listen more attentively to the tone sounded by the clock, the church-bell, the bird, the drinking-glass.
Music Talks with Children Thomas Tapper
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Suppose that I had wanted to keep that drinking-glass for my own personal use.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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The young lady's roommate had been discovered giving a dog a drink from the common drinking-glass.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Now, I like water in a tub or drinking-glass or under a bridge.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Jane opened the bottle and measured a teaspoonful into a drinking-glass.
The Poor Little Rich Girl Eleanor Gates 1913
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