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While visiting a friend, you sleep in an all-wool, nothing-synthetic bed, and you wake up more fully refreshed and rested than you've felt in months.
Deepak Chopra: Spiritual Solutions #14 - Simple and Whole Deepak Chopra 2010
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While visiting a friend, you sleep in an all-wool, nothing-synthetic bed, and you wake up more fully refreshed and rested than you've felt in months.
Deepak Chopra: Spiritual Solutions #14 - Simple and Whole Deepak Chopra 2010
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When I asked for less expensive all-wool alternatives, she said she didn't have any.
Launch of Teardown Project Hinges on Ironing Out Details 2008
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Each of Gap's three divisions aims at a different slice of the market: Banana Republic offers upscale suits and accessories that can set you back a hundred a pop, Gap itself focuses on items in the more moderate range like all-wool sweaters and tres chic babywear, and Old Navy completes the coverage, selling some 80 percent of its goods for under $30.
Downscale Moves Up 2008
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I've been sleeping under a sheet, a quilt, a down comforter, and an all-wool Hudson Bay blanket.
Lake Level 12-13-04 2004
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` I keep telling Mo we need to change it to all-wool. '
Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004
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Misrepresentation in advertisement should be severely punished; the selling of cold storage for fresh products, of part-cotton for all-wool clothing, of less for more expensive woods, and the thousand other ways of panning inferior goods upon an inexpert public for high-grade articles.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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Flags made of the best all-wool double-warped U.S. government standard bunting, 45 stars sewn in the field, both sides, with canvas headings, best lacquered brass grummets, and all double stitched.
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Of all the unfortunates on the face of the globe there is none so worthy of real all-wool pity and yard-wide sympathy as the woman of nerves.
The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans
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Equal simplicity in dress prevailed, and a gown of bombazette -- a very narrow, all-wool goods, worth from seventy-five cents to a dollar a yard, -- was often worn for best during the owner's lifetime, and at her death bequeathed, with the fondly-cherished string of gold beads, to the favorite granddaughter, as a precious legacy.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various
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