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Consider this "over-payment" an investment in our collective good, as well as an annual insurance premium in case you are ever appointed to a high-post in a presidential administration.
Elizabeth Rigby: Progressive Agenda Tip #1: Pay Your Taxes 2009
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How he picked the basketball brains of the great ones, scribbling down the X's and O's of high-post cuts and trap rotations on lunch napkins.
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When we go to our high-post offense, he does a wonderful job.
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"Greg's game is high-post open shots, where the center steps back into the lane, he can step into the open spot," Jackson said.
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The high-post screen was really working well for us.
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In one corner stood an old fashioned high-post bedstead, of the finest curled maple, curiously carved and ornamented.
Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches George Paul Goff
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Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Windsor chairs, Sheraton and thousand-legged tables, flax wheels and warming pans were associated with canopied high-post bedsteads, while corner cupboards revealed rare copper-luster china of almost untold value.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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I do not know what would delight him most; the high-post bed, the dressing-table, the chest of drawers, or the old clock on the mantel.
The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald
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In my longing I purred with the cat rolled up in her furry ball on the rug by the fire, making a high-post bedstead of a chair; in my longing I stole with furtive rats to their mysterious cave-nests in the wall.
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In front of the kitchen was the "living-room," in one corner of which stood a carved high-post bedstead -- glory of the Macys and envy of their neighbors -- with its curtains of big figured chintz, brown sunflowers sprawling over a white ground, drawn aside in the daytime to display the marvelous patchwork of the quilt beneath.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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