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The blunt-ended capsule is a PROVEN design with decades of experience on the books.
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His fingers were long and blunt-ended under his black claws.
Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010
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These people also claim that blunt-ended knives work just fine in the kitchen, and I guess that's true, unless you need to stab somebody in your kitchen.
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Muybridge's long exposures make waterfalls or surging creeks look like sharpened wedges or blunt-ended mallets, weapons that enforce geological flux.
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These people also claim that blunt-ended knives work just fine in the kitchen, and I guess that's true, unless you need to stab somebody in your kitchen.
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They found that the chimps built and used five different types of tools to help them find beehives and extract honey: thin, straight sticks to probe the ground for buried nests; thick, blunt-ended pounders to break open beehive entrances; thinner lever-like enlargers to break down walls within the hive; collectors with frayed ends to dip honey from the opened hive and bark spoons to scoop it out.
Archive 2009-05-01 Alison 2009
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They found that the chimps built and used five different types of tools to help them find beehives and extract honey: thin, straight sticks to probe the ground for buried nests; thick, blunt-ended pounders to break open beehive entrances; thinner lever-like enlargers to break down walls within the hive; collectors with frayed ends to dip honey from the opened hive and bark spoons to scoop it out.
Chimpanzee develops automatic mango peeler while competing in belt sander races Dave 2009
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The houseboats were blunt-ended tubs a hundred feet long and forty broad.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Therefore she saw the glint of the manrikigusari-literally "the chain with the strength of ten thousand men" - consisting of two feet of hand-forged iron chain with three-and-one-half-inch blunt-ended weights attached to each end.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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The left hand was extended and DeLong could make out a short black-wood stick, blunt-ended, as big around as his own nightstick.
The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980
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