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  • They spend a great part of their time in lolling on skien sofas; while a train of female slaves, scarcely less voluptuous, attend to sing to them, to fan them, and to rub their bodies; an exercise which the

    Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous

  • As many of you may know, Cablevision (in some parts) are rearranging their HD premium channels, moving a patchwork of 700 slots to a consolidated 800 skien of consecutive channels.

    TiVo Community 2009

  • Five no-decisions down the stretch, including one past the point at which the Angels clinched but still into a skien in which they have postseason home-field advantage for which to play.

    unknown title 2008

  • Consider the Minnesota Twins: They're on a fourteen-game trip right now, part of a skien in which they'll have played 24 of 30 out of town with the American League Central on the line.

    unknown title 2008

  • Believe me, I resist 99\% of the time that anyone "has to have anything," but she was hugging this skien of yarn and loving it and insisting I could "quilt something beautiful with it ..."

    Chicken Blog 2008

  • Consider the Minnesota Twins: They're on a fourteen-game trip right now, part of a skien in which they'll have played 24 of 30 out of town with the American League Central on the line.

    unknown title 2008

  • I bought the amazing yarn for these socks at a price that I will not mention, but it was much higher than I normally pay for one skien of yarn.

    Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO' 2008

  • Consider the Minnesota Twins: They're on a fourteen-game trip right now, part of a skien in which they'll have played 24 of 30 out of town with the American League Central on the line.

    unknown title 2008

  • i also bought some more embroidery floss, and discovered i'd lost one of the flosses for the piece i'm in the middle of. and of course i only had one skien of it, so i can't even match it by the number now. damn!

    Archive 2007-10-01 amy 2007

  • i also bought some more embroidery floss, and discovered i'd lost one of the flosses for the piece i'm in the middle of. and of course i only had one skien of it, so i can't even match it by the number now. damn!

    glitter, vinyl and thread. amy 2007

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