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Just gather lots of very small dry tinder (dry grass, very small sticks) and an armload of pencil-sized sticks and then your larger wood.
Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter. 2009
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Just gather lots of very small dry tinder (dry grass, very small sticks) and an armload of pencil-sized sticks and then your larger wood.
Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter. 2009
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Jory weighing less than three pounds, a pencil-sized endotracheal tube strapped to her pale rosebud mouth, bunny-shaped EKG pads over her chest and an IV line taped into her scalp.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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Sap dribbled and cascaded from pencil-sized boreholes all over its trunk, darkening it with glistening syrup that was plainly irresistible to the insects.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Sap dribbled and cascaded from pencil-sized boreholes all over its trunk, darkening it with glistening syrup that was plainly irresistible to the insects.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Forget about the heart; it has a pencil-sized hole in it. previous - next
nessus Diary Entry nessus 2007
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A little silk pencil-sized case that I'll use for knitting notions:
Thrift Store Finds The Raven 2007
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As he pulled a pencil-sized splinter of bookcase out of his thigh, Tommy thought that he might have been a little hasty about yelling at Jody for turning him into a vampire.
You Suck Moore, Christopher, 1957- 2007
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His fiddle skittered into life and, heart pounding and hands fumbling, I made myself ready: trousers pulled on beneath my dark skirts, a length of brown silk rope around my waist, tiny binoculars, a pencil-sized torch.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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Ana took her own, pencil-sized flashlight with her as she let herself out of the sleeping building.
A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999
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