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Examples
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This beer-barrel R2D2 sculpture comes from Deviant Art's Amoebabloke, who's hoping to find a buyer who isn't just a rich collector.
Boing Boing 2008
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Liquid of beer-barrel tree cures a blue nose — William Bennett.
Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006
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It was a boy hiding invisibly in a gnarly crevice of an old beer-barrel tree.
Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006
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His legs were short, but sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain; so that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer-barrel on skids.
Washington Irving 2004
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As for sign of any haste about him, or wiping of his forehead, or fumbling with his handkerchief, or being in a stew in any sort of way — as the stupid cook who let him in declared, by reason of her own having been at the beer-barrel — solemnly, miss, as I hope to go to heaven, there was nothing of the sort about him.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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Pavlusha, had tangled black hair, grey eyes, broad cheek - bones, a pale face pitted with small-pox, a large but well-cut mouth; his head altogether was large — ‘a beer-barrel head,’ as they say — and his figure was square and clumsy.
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In one hand he held an enormous antique revolver-a kind which was sometimes called a beer-barrel because of the cylinder's size.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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He had been saying farewell to the beer-barrel in the cellar.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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He had been saying farewell to the beer-barrel in the cellar.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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His legs were short, but sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain, so that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer-barrel on skids.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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