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  • It was simply a honey-comb paper rack turned out of temporal phrase with a single-cycle beat.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • The illustration suggests something like the honey-comb planning of Herman Miller's Resolve, yet they actually mention some of the Big Table Desking offerings by Vitra!

    Archive 2009-04-01 lavardera 2009

  • But coming across endearments like "sweet honey-comb" and "sweet honey dear," I realized that, hey! honey is sweet! and good!

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • The illustration suggests something like the honey-comb planning of Herman Miller's Resolve, yet they actually mention some of the Big Table Desking offerings by Vitra!

    wired on the evolution of the workplace lavardera 2009

  • But coming across endearments like "sweet honey-comb" and "sweet honey dear," I realized that, hey! honey is sweet! and good!

    Archive 2009-03-01 Flavia 2009

  • And when they were by every kind of proof persuaded that it was Himself, and in the body, they asked Him to eat with them, that they might thus still more accurately ascertain that He had in verity risen bodily; and He did eat honey-comb and fish.

    Archive 2009-04-12 2009

  • Khalíyah is properly a hive of bees with a honey-comb in the hollow of a tree-trunk, opposed to Kawwárah, hive made of clay or earth (Al – Hariri; Ass. of Tiflis).

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Materials Bees have made it for millenniums -- but honey-comb construction, superstrong because of its hexagonal shape, has been used in aircraft since 1949.

    The Boeing 747 2008

  • From their home they fly now here, now there, feeding on honey-comb and bringing all things to pass.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • If the eye may be judge, iron must be reckoned to have a great many vacuities, and to be porous like a honey-comb, yet it is the dullest, and sounds worse than any other metal.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

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