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Jake and I rolled her up in the motheaten burlap tarp.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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Jake and I rolled her up in the motheaten burlap tarp.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Jim Wallis: Video: Rush Limbaugh to Speak at Sojourners' Mobilization to End Poverty 2009
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During the autumn it will fall apart like a motheaten cushion to release thousands and thousands of fluffy seeds.
Archive 2008-08-01 Carla 2008
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During the autumn it will fall apart like a motheaten cushion to release thousands and thousands of fluffy seeds.
High summer Carla 2008
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"Well, we'll be scraping our jam a bit thin for the next several weeks, and the gardens will look a little motheaten for a week or two, but it was worth it," she said with content.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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The girl had a new silk kerchief around her neck, her hair put up inexpertly beneath a bonnet that was liberally trimmed with motheaten feathers and stained rosettes of ribbon.
The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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The man who'd helped them seemed to feel a little sorry for them now; he hovered over them both for a moment, then went a few paces off and returned with a huge fur rug-a bit motheaten and bare in patches, but warm.
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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Remy slipped off Dredd's plaid wool, motheaten jacket and finished making the bed.
Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997
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"Stefan, old friend," Roald said, turning to the King, "Is it worth an in-foal Shin'a'in mare to force a swordpoint marriage by royal decree on one motheaten Bard?"
Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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