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The coffee-grinder went into action, so they couldnt really continue the conversation until it was finished.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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The coffee-grinder went into action, so they couldnt really continue the conversation until it was finished.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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The coffee-grinder went into action, so they couldnt really continue the conversation until it was finished.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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Patrick Belford, a professional multimedia designer, just sent me a link for his 3D Curta Calculator Simulation (needs Shockwave/Flash) inspired by Clifford Stoll's recent Scientific American feature about the 'coffee-grinder' - almost the last, and certainly the most elegant, flowering of mechanical calculator technology.
Curta and other simulations Ray Girvan 2004
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Patrick Belford, a professional multimedia designer, just sent me a link for his 3D Curta Calculator Simulation (needs Shockwave/Flash) inspired by Clifford Stoll's recent Scientific American feature about the 'coffee-grinder' - almost the last, and certainly the most elegant, flowering of mechanical calculator technology.
Archive 2004-02-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Our coffee-grinder was borrowed from a BISTRO near by, and our dustbin and brooms from the concierge.
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A derrick winch, even a coffee-grinder in the galley might provide all the impulse it requires. '
Santorini MacLean, Alistair 1986
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Imagine a coffee-grinder into which have been thrown Greek,
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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"Shouldn't dream of risking it, old dear," replied John Fanshawe pleasantly, "not on your venerable coffee-grinder anyhow -- not until she gets a navigator."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various
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Our coffee-grinder was borrowed from a bistro near by, and our dustbin and brooms from the concierge.
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