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  • “Lo,” she said, brandishing her three-tined smork in the ancient gestures.

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  • After my first few clumsy tries, I got the hang of the metal nutcrackers and the tiny three-tined fork, prying chunks of pink-and-white flesh out of the lobster claws and dousing them with butter, too, amazed at the taste of the meat, light and rich and sweet.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • After my first few clumsy tries, I got the hang of the metal nutcrackers and the tiny three-tined fork, prying chunks of pink-and-white flesh out of the lobster claws and dousing them with butter, too, amazed at the taste of the meat, light and rich and sweet.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • After my first few clumsy tries, I got the hang of the metal nutcrackers and the tiny three-tined fork, prying chunks of pink-and-white flesh out of the lobster claws and dousing them with butter, too, amazed at the taste of the meat, light and rich and sweet.

    Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009

  • That silver-blue lightning. three-tined, five-tined, was striking inside Caemlyn, causing damage and maybe deaths.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • I reached for the little three-tined spear which swung from the belt of my bathing suit, but the shark swam away into the dusky oblivion.

    F&S Classic: Five Fathoms Down 1999

  • The three-tined hook was set well into the railing, and the weight of the men swarming up the line attached to it only encouraged the metal to bite deeper into the wood.

    Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000

  • "Gee, mother, I never could insult one of your pies by introducing it to a little old three-tined fork!"

    The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas 1996

  • The bill for the kitchen crockery had just come in, and a set of three-tined forks were badly needed; but Roseton's intellect grasped the necessities of the operation, and the necessary funds were ordered to be advanced; and the pledge, now forever forfeited by the loan clause of the Revised Statutes, lay upon the floor of the vault.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • When you do this the first time, I suggest that you spread the garbage over the entire surface and mix it in using a three-tined hand cultivator.

    Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

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