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  • So it is that Mr. Turner will go to Washington, and the Ninth District, in its present gerrymandered dumb-bell configuration, with a narrow link between Brooklyn and Queens, will retire to well-deserved oblivion, having enjoying its moment in the spotlight.

    Henry J. Stern: Big Apple Turnover Henry J. Stern 2011

  • "This is what we are after, Mr. Barker -- this bundle, weighted with a dumb-bell, which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat."

    Chennai 2010

  • From within he extracted a dumb-bell, which he tossed down to its fellow in the corner.

    Chennai 2010

  • "One dumb-bell" Holmes said seriously; but his remarks were interrupted by a sharp knock at the door.

    Chennai 2010

  • The holes created by their mandibles either side of the leaf vein are bordered by scar tissue, producing an unmistakable dumb-bell shape.

    'Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years 2010

  • Can one branch become weaker with a dumb-bell or groiup of dumb-bells, at their head?

    After Ginsburg? "A woman? It seems certain. It’s inconceivable that the Court could be all-male...." Ann Althouse 2009

  • His notion of keeping sacred the dignity of domestic life is to issue peremptory orders that the grandfather is to get up at five in the morning and do dumb-bell exercises, or the grandmother to march twenty miles to a camp to procure a Swastika flag.

    Vintage Distributism Athanasius 2007

  • Last week in the paper there was a shocking story of a young Iraqi lady who was brutally beaten around the head with a dumb-bell bar by her brother, who was ordered by her father to murder her.

    Islamic Barbarism & Savagery upon our streets Lionheart 2007

  • His notion of keeping sacred the dignity of domestic life is to issue peremptory orders that the grandfather is to get up at five in the morning and do dumb-bell exercises, or the grandmother to march twenty miles to a camp to procure a Swastika flag.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

  • I had a rubdown and then got into pyjamas for some dumb-bell exercises with two chairs, for that long wet ride had stiffened my arm and shoulder muscles.

    Greenmantle 2005

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