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The clothes from Seconds are mostly made of washed cottons, while the main collection uses more expensive fabrics like cupro, luxe wools and leather.
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In Science and Civilization in China, Needham offers a summary of his theory: "The Greek kingdoms in Bactria during the first half of the second century BCE used a cupro-nickel coinage, so far as is at present known the oldest in the world."
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Superiore autem anno 1591. qu鎑am nauis Germanica, cupro onusta, portum Islandi� Vopnafiord 14. dies circiter in Nouembri occupauit, quibus lapsis inde foeliciter soluit Quare cum glacies Islandi�, nec perpetu�, neque octo mensibus adh鎟eat, Munsterus & Frisius manifest� falluntur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Superiore autem anno 1591. quædam nauis Germanica, cupro onusta, portum Islandiæ Vopnafiord 14. dies circiter in Nouembri occupauit, quibus lapsis inde foeliciter soluit Quare cum glacies Islandiæ, nec perpetuò, neque octo mensibus adhæreat, Munsterus & Frisius manifestè falluntur.
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And then Royale would let me have one of those cupro-nickel bullets between the eyes.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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I could see myself bending over the hole, the unseen, unheard approach of Royale, and then the bullet, just one, a cupro-nickel jacketed .22 at the base of the skull.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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Intact, all the deadly little cupro-nickel shells there.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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It was the kind of hole that would have been made by the cupro-nickel jacketed bullet from a .22 automatic.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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Two of the remaining bullets, the Mauser and Krag-Jörgensen, are ensheathed with steel covered with a thin coating of an alloy of copper or cupro-nickel, to take the rifling of the barrel, while the third has a plain steel mantle which is covered with a layer of wax to take the place of the nickel used in the manufacture of the two others.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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That it possesses elasticity and capability of bending is obvious, and in a later chapter, devoted to irregular wounds, several illustrations of such deformities are given; but when it strikes stone I believe it splits and tears with very much greater freedom than the cupro-nickel mantle of the Lee-Metford.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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