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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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