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  • Yes, you'll get the black 'pillarbox' bands on either side of your movie, but it's better than than the disfigured heads.

    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 2010

  • Yes, you'll get the black 'pillarbox' bands on either side of your movie, but it's better than than the disfigured heads.

    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 2010

  • Yes, you'll get the black 'pillarbox' bands on either side of your movie, but it's better than than the disfigured heads.

    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 2010

  • Zsuzsana came round early evening on Christmas Eve, handed me her pillarbox red motorcycle helmet and starting cooking a lemon sole.

    Diary of a separation 2011

  • It's difficult, and at the moment of purchase my yarn underwent a mysterious change from sophisticated russet to pillarbox red, but it's kind of fun.

    Archive 2008-07-01 MissPrism 2008

  • The waiter clambered out of the the stairwell for probably the twentieth time and I wondered aloud to the person next to me, the one that had had the perfectly pink rack of lamb with the pillarbox and the triple underscore of jus, why the million buck interior design hadn't run to a dumb waiter, that is, a mechanical elevator from the kitchen with a food dispensary at the upper level.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • There was an eclectic red vegetable pillarbox next to the rainpuddle and an evergreen shrub of something, maybe seaweed, maybe not, beyond that.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • The waiter clambered out of the the stairwell for probably the twentieth time and I wondered aloud to the person next to me, the one that had had the perfectly pink rack of lamb with the pillarbox and the triple underscore of jus, why the million buck interior design hadn't run to a dumb waiter, that is, a mechanical elevator from the kitchen with a food dispensary at the upper level.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • There was an eclectic red vegetable pillarbox next to the rainpuddle and an evergreen shrub of something, maybe seaweed, maybe not, beyond that.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • He had found it in an envelope, addressed by the elder Mr Longestaffe to Messrs. Slow and Bideawhile, and he had himself posted this letter in a pillarbox near to his house.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

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