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  • For example, the newly-tested Whirlpool Vantage top-loading washer shown above with its matching dryer has a sleek metallic finish, a self-opening glass lid, an LED-lit stainless steel interior, and an eco-monitor that tracks energy use.

    Considering a Whirlpool appliance? Act fast for savings 2011

  • From 1937 comes a pair of 12-bore, self-opening, sidelock ejector guns from Purdy that are expected to fetch £35,000-£45,000.

    The Fire Power of Pistols Margaret Studer 2011

  • Vrinte notes that Wilber when discussing his integral practice makes no mention of Aurobindo spiritual methods: "aspiration for and faith in the divine, self-opening, equality and Grace or the paths of karma and bhakti" p 455.

    An integral yogi who philosophises Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Page 402by Michel Montecrossa121: Problems in action new method This attitude of self-opening or surrenderand the ensuing response from the supramental consciousness means that the ...

    Supramental beings Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • But when they arrived at the Palace itself and entered the huge, self-opening doors, they found the place as chaotic as an overturned beehive.

    The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • The Church would either look the other way, or the High King would pay the fine and continue to have his lighting and his self-opening doors.

    The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • It was like a piece of self-opening origami, or a rosebud blooming into a rose in just a few seconds.

    Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

  • I still did not quite trust it; that self-opening door, was magic, and too convenient.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

  • I still did not quite trust it; that self-opening door, was magic, and too convenient.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

  • He walked through the self-opening doors into the terminal and found a TV monitor with his flight information.

    Clear and Present Danger Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1989

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