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  • The air smells of splintered and resined wood, of acrid crushed leaves, and slightly of the acrid and musky scent that tells of stun lizards.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Their shadows fought on the resined boards under their feet, sharply thrown by the grouped lamps.

    The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966

  • A piece of ordinary washing line rope, or sash line rope, well resined if resin can be got -- but pitch, tar, or wax will do by adding a little fine dust to prevent sticking -- is used as a belt.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • 'Tis a battered, shattered, cracky, resinous old blackguard; but if every bow that ever crossed its strings from its birth had been sugared instead of resined, more sweetness could not come out of its belly.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • Evelyn seized the bow, resined it herself, tuned the violin and began playing like an expert.

    Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It Hal Standish

  • All our talented performers had tuned their instruments, scraped, fluted, twanged, jingled, and shawmed to their hearts 'content, and had resined their fiddlesticks upon the freshest of dewdrops.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

  • They seemed to be able to wrestle a tune out of almost anything -- glass bottles, cigar - box fiddles, strings of sleigh-bells, even graduated brass tubes, which they rubbed with resined fingers.

    McTeague 1920

  • "That Reg has run away with her, of course," said Mrs. Beecher, in a resined tone.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • "That Reg has run away with her, of course," said Mrs. Beecher, in a resined tone.

    Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • After a short rest, the men resined their hands anew and prepared for the second pull.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

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