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Durability: The bottom and the outside material are heavy enough to hold up well with hard use, but the small-tooth zippers are a weak point.
Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009
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Durability: The bottom and the outside material are heavy enough to hold up well with hard use, but the small-tooth zippers are a weak point.
Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009
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An idea seized me, and I went over the flat with a small-tooth comb.
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An idea seized me, and I went over the flat with a small-tooth comb.
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An idea seized me, and I went over the flat with a small-tooth comb.
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'We've raked the country with a small-tooth comb, sir,' said one of the staff officers.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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An idea seized me, and I went over the flat with a small-tooth comb.
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907
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Go through his _dossier_ with a small-tooth comb and I'll bet you find something to work on.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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Nothing can be nastier (or more apt) than his comparison between the use of humour in controversy and that of the small-tooth comb in domestic life; nothing less delicate than the imaginary “Suckling Act” in which he burlesques Lord Shaftesbury's Ten Hours Bill.
Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904
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It is double, like a modern small-tooth comb, but does not present the feature, common in Egypt, of
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