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Swathe your bandage on forgetfulness, put lint around your painful language of statement, value, worth, expectation.
erection standing up in eternity Jerry Ratch 2011
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Swathe blamed the debt on the lack of skilled personnel and predicted the eradication of municipal debt would be a central issue in the run up to local government elections.
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Swathe said performance should be rewarded, and it was vital that talented individuals be attracted to work in local government.
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Swathe said a written reply to a question put by him in the
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Swathe the body in the thickest of non-conductors of heat, and what happens?
The Silent Bullet 1908
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Swathe after swathe fell to the ground in a straight line behind them, and the binders bound them in bands of twisted straw.
The Iliad of Homer 1898
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Swathe after swathe fell to the ground in a straight line behind them, and the binders bound them in bands of twisted straw.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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_Swathe_, the long line of mown corn behind a reaper; cf. "swathes of the sword," _i. e._ heaps of dead in battle.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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Swarm, a multitude v. Swathe, to bind with rollers
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Pieces of Linnen, which they folded about me till they had wrapt me in above an hundred Yards of Swathe: My Arms were pressed to my
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Swathe- To bind with bandage (Websters Dictionary, pg. 376)
September 27, 2010