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  • But the recent boom in high-tech gadgetry, from iPhones to Kindles, has meant big paydays and endless gigs for people with the right mix of hairless hands, dry palms, and small-pored skin.

    High-Tech Handiwork 2009

  • The lake-edge (Lower Saranac) is so nearly under me that I can't see the shore, but only the water, small-pored with rain-splashes -- for there is a heavy down-pour.

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Mark Twain 1872

  • The lake-edge (Lower Saranac) is so nearly under me that I can't see the shore, but only the water, small-pored with rain-splashes -- for there is a heavy down-pour.

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

  • The typical Memphis soil is clay, a small-pored soil type that tends to absorb water slowly and hold on to it tightly in much the same way that a cotton string will pull water upward along its length when one end is immersed in a glass of water.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • The typical Memphis soil is clay, a small-pored soil type that tends to absorb water slowly and hold on to it tightly in much the same way that a cotton string will pull water upward along its length when one end is immersed in a glass of water.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • The typical Memphis soil is clay, a small-pored soil type that tends to absorb water slowly and hold on to it tightly in much the same way that a cotton string will pull water upward along its length when one end is immersed in a glass of water.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • The typical Memphis soil is clay, a small-pored soil type that tends to absorb water slowly and hold on to it tightly in much the same way that a cotton string will pull water upward along its length when one end is immersed in a glass of water.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

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