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To be helpful, store attendants might use a small amount of newspaper or dusty, half-spent bubble wrap to try to protect your purchase.
Handmade Mexican Art from 3 de Mayo, Morelos and getting it home in one piece 2008
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To be helpful, store attendants might use a small amount of newspaper or dusty, half-spent bubble wrap to try to protect your purchase.
Handmade Mexican Art from 3 de Mayo, Morelos and getting it home in one piece 2008
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A half-spent tube of wasabi paste nestled triumphantly against the shattered remains.
The Egg Whisk 2010
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She sat there, thinking of it till the night was half-spent, and when she crept up cold to bed, she had almost made up her mind that it would be best for her to do as her uncle wished.
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She let the half-spent pad of paper fall to her lap and studied him instead.
Strategic Engagement Mann, Catherine 2003
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On the pavement lay Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent gulping like half-spent fish.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996
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A gap in a row of cup hooks, the dented rubber of a tossed Wellington boot, a carefully rerolled bandage, the whiff of Ponting's developing fluid in his tiny darkroom, a half-spent candle in a chipped candlestick-perhaps it was the whistling of the wind, but I could have sworn if I turned around I would find them tramping back, spent dogs at their heels.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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As if he were uncaring, Rourke took the blue Detonics that had belonged to the KGB man and studied it, dumping the half-spent magazine, clearing the chamber.
The Doomsayer AHERN, Jerry 1981
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As if he were uncaring, Rourke took the blue Detonics that had belonged to the KGB man and studied it, dumping the half-spent magazine, clearing the chamber.
The Doomsayer Ahern, Jerry 1981
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On the pavement lay Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent gulping like half-spent fish.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979
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