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... handed with tremulously eager hands, while Phyllis swiftly cut away the sleeves of the green dress and slashed a decolletage, and draped the net over it and ...

— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer

... now be left until the following spring, when the top should be cut away to within an inch or less of the bud; this will assist the roots to throw all their energy ...

— Your Plants - Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender - and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden • James Sheehan

... "skeeters" of Quashy's nocturnal trumpet. They settled on its point with a species of triumphant hum. They warred with each other in their bloodthirsty desire to seize on the delicate but limited morsel. It was "cut and come again"—at least it was "cut away and let others come on"—as long as the chance lasted. And the consequence was that Quashy rose next morning with two noses! His natural nose being a mere lump of fat and the lump raised on it being much the same in form and size with ...

— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne

... determined by the exigencies of the time, such guns as were available being picked up here and there and forwarded to Cairo. The army supplied thirty-five old 42-pounders, which were rifled, and so threw a 70-pound shell. These having lost the metal cut away for grooves, and not being banded, were called upon to endure the increased strain of firing rifled projectiles with actually less strength than had been allowed for the discharge of a round ball of about half the weight. ...

— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan

... sort," said Matthew. "He used to pommel and thresh her up and doon, and that's why she cut away frae him, and that's why she's sic ...

— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

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