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Examples
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I entered the Pet Palaces hyper-fluorescent lit interior and spent seventy-some dollars getting Dog-boy a stainless steel bowl set, several chew-bones the size of an Easter Island head, and a short leash with a chain big enough to serve as a watch-fob for King Kong.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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I entered the Pet Palaces hyper-fluorescent lit interior and spent seventy-some dollars getting Dog-boy a stainless steel bowl set, several chew-bones the size of an Easter Island head, and a short leash with a chain big enough to serve as a watch-fob for King Kong.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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I entered the Pet Palaces hyper-fluorescent lit interior and spent seventy-some dollars getting Dog-boy a stainless steel bowl set, several chew-bones the size of an Easter Island head, and a short leash with a chain big enough to serve as a watch-fob for King Kong.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Mark Twain had the two half-shells incised firmly in gold, and one of these he wore on his watch-fob, and sent the other to Margaret.
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He saw her beside him in the trap, watching with bright, eager eyes the striding bays, and later tugging at his watch-fob.
The Short Line War Merwin-Webster
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It would be unpardonable to love a plain man whom Fashion could not seduce, whose sense of right dictated his life, a man who does not walk perpendicular in a standing collar, and sport a watch-fob, and twirl a cane.
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She crept, until she saw his watch-fob dangling against the counter, and then her heart made a call.
Balcony Stories Grace E. King
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Suddenly, out of the air in front of Seaton, a man materialized: a man identical with him in every feature and detail, even to the smudge of grease under one eye, the small wrinkles in his heavy blue serge suit, and the emblem of the American Chemical Society upon his watch-fob.
The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922
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She was without her jacket but wore a man's starched piqué waistcoat over her white shirtwaist, and from one pocket there dangled a man's watch-fob of braided leather.
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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When she was dressed a man's linen waistcoat with a black silk watch-fob hanging from the pocket added further to the unfeminine _tout ensemble_.
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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