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  • At last count I had a ball pien, a cross pien, a panel hammer (autobody), six framing hammers (16-28 oz), a couple of finish hammers, a planishing hammer, 3 or 4 hand sledges, a tack hammer and a 12 # sledge hammer.

    God's Hammer 2009

  • Ball pien hammers, baseball bats, knives, fire extinguishers...why is a firearm the subject of concern? one might be more efficient than another but all have the potential.ohgoodgriefQuote

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Government as Proprietor, and the Second Amendment 2009

  • Fundamentals of the Chinese Communist Party (The China book project) by Tang ti chi chu chih shih pien hsien tsu

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: At Book Fair, a Subplot About Chinese Rights 2009

  • After eight years of wallowing in the Chen Shui-bian Ch'en Shui-pien mire, compounded by the deterioration of the international economic environment, Taiwan's economic recovery will be, inevitably, slow in coming.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • Dante's "Tanto gentile" has as its context the other poems and the prose of the Vita Nuova, but it lives on the uncanny eloquence of its last word: un spirito soave pien d'amore, che va dicendo a l'anima: Sospira.

    'On Eloquence' 2008

  • I protest that I know no more of Chinese than of Arabic, but I have read, in a small Chinese vocabulary, that this nation has always had two words to express the catalogue or list of the characters of its language: one is ko-tou, the other hai-pien; we have neither ko-tou nor hai-pien in our Occidental tongues.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • "Da cheng yi pien", older police said, get along with people, make money.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • Fa-pien (no. 31) and Seng-kuo (no. 27) consummately excelled in meditation and contemplation.

    Lives of the Nuns 1972

  • Yang Ling-pien pretended distant kinship with Tao-hsing on account of their having the same last name and,

    Lives of the Nuns 1972

  • Meng K'ang (ca. 180-260) and Su Lin (fl. 196-227) say that pien

    The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1955

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