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But now it is all better because various members of the staff have raided their Christmas supplies and now we have a fine selection of 16 and 18 gauge white, brown, and green 2-wire extension cords in place of the nice 14-gauge three-wire air-conditioner cords that disappeared.

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He said they were guided by instruction manuals showing that there should have been three-wire seals on the paper-ballot scanning machines instead of the two that actually were affixed.

Vincent Gray to request extended voting hours in D.C. mayor's race Michael DeBonis 2010

I threw my pack over the three-wire barbed-wire fence and climbed over, being careful not to cut myself.

Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

He said they were guided by instruction manuals showing that there should have been three-wire seals on the paper-ballot scanning machines instead of the two that actually were affixed.

Vincent Gray to request extended voting hours in D.C. mayor's race 2010

He said they were guided by instruction manuals showing that there should have been three-wire seals on the paper-ballot scanning machines instead of the two that actually were affixed.

Vincent Gray to request extended voting hours in D.C. mayor's race 2010

I threw my pack over the three-wire barbed-wire fence and climbed over, being careful not to cut myself.

Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

The long end, leading us seaward, was next put round the drum and a mile of it picked up; but then, fearing another tangle, the end was cut and buoyed, and we returned to grapple for the three-wire cable.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

‘To-day about 1 o’clock we hooked the three-wire cable, buoyed the long sea end, and picked up the short [or shore] end.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

This second length of three-wire cable soon got into the same condition as its fellow — i.e. came up twenty kinks an hour — and after seven miles were in, parted on the pulley over the bows at one of the said kinks; during my watch again, but this time no earthly power could have saved it.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Our work is done: the whole of the six-wire cable has been recovered; only a small part of the three-wire, but that wire was bad and, owing to its twisted state, the value small.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005