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These innovations, while at one time considered odd, ultimately proved viable by a marked reduction in beard rippings and wheel induced abrasions and dismemberments.

The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Weirdness BikeSnobNYC 2008

But I am afraid of the whole birthing process: the various fluids and rippings and expansions....

Tick-tock Amanda 2008

Leftover framing lumber, oak rippings from the table saw, basically junk.

outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2005

A riot of crashing glass, of rippings and callings and overturned furniture.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

A riot of crashing glass, of rippings and callings and overturned furniture.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

Taking into account the rippings, and burnings, and roastings, and hanging; the racks, whips, fines, imprisonments, and other horrors of the reign of this 'Good Bess,' there was a hundred times more human misery inflicted in her reign than in that of 'Bloody Mary.'

An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

No rippings up or tearings down will I allow unless I stand by to supervise the job.

The Filigree Ball 1903

No rippings up or tearings down will I allow unless I stand by to supervise the job.

The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Anna Katharine Green 1890

A comparatively enormous quantity of flour had been lost by the continual rippings of bags in the scrubs farther south, and also a general loss in weight of nearly ten per cent., from continual handling of the bags, and evaporation.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

It may be hard to go back to a life that doesn't include regular spine-rippings and

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