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  • Sounds like borger needs to read the constitution and learn about the checks and balances. table-leg

    Borger: Congress needs 'Boss Obama' 2009

  • With his free leg, he kicked me until I let go but I pulled him down, managing to make his head hit a table-leg.

    How I met Kraai 2010

  • Paul knew he would regret it, but was nonetheless helpless to resist asking what in the name of arse was going on, when the blue object did a ninety-degree turn and caught a table-leg a glancing blow.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • If I could interrogate this table-leg in a way that made sense to me, or to the table-leg, then it could provide me with the answer to any question about the universe.

    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988

  • At the end the tables are placed upside down and a lantern placed on each table-leg.

    Buddhism and Buddhists in China Lewis Hodus

  • Then she sank down on the floor, carrying the book with her, and leaning her back against a table-leg she lost herself in an interview with Madam S----.

    An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner

  • Stretched full-length on the carpet, his head beside a table-leg, his feet against the window-jamb, he looked enormous.

    Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942

  • He approached the sofa, but before throwing himself into one of its inviting corners, manlike he placed one of the large sofa pillows rather gingerly on the floor against a table-leg.

    The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

  • We met the "Admiral" in a tavern, from which he had just ejected everyone else with the aid of a table-leg which he still grasped when we entered.

    Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

  • Abstractedly and yet with joy she fingered the fine work of the table-leg.

    The Return of the Soldier 1918

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