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Crabs abound here too and include fiddler crabs, hermit crabs, blue crabs, mud crabs, and square-backed crabs.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007
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There are sleek low white flat box-shaped furniture pieces dividing the dining room, the tables are squares draped in white linen, the chairs are white and square-backed and seated, even the windows are large white framed squares with flat, square, sheer, white, curtains.
Spain 2006
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There are sleek low white flat box-shaped furniture pieces dividing the dining room, the tables are squares draped in white linen, the chairs are white and square-backed and seated, even the windows are large white framed squares with flat, square, sheer, white, curtains.
Augieland: 2006
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There are sleek low white flat box-shaped furniture pieces dividing the dining room, the tables are squares draped in white linen, the chairs are white and square-backed and seated, even the windows are large white framed squares with flat, square, sheer, white, curtains.
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The square-backed, untarnished blade flashes in the light.
No Limits Peter David 2003
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He thinks, at first, it must be some antique pencil case—until he sees a metallic prong jutting from one end, a hinge, and a thin strip of bright, square-backed metal nestled between ivory spacers.
No Limits Peter David 2003
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He'd liked a sketch of a square-backed armchair where the upper joined corners were more like arcs than right angles.
The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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Within, the high pulpit, surmounted by a sounding-board, towered over the square-backed pews, facing a congregation kept orderly by stern tithing-man and sterner tradition.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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Once more the little room, with its open corner cupboard, and its square-backed chairs, and its angular little staircase leading to the room above, and its three peacocks feathers displayed over the mantelpieceI remember wondering when I first went in, what that peacock would have thought if he had known what his finery was doomed to come tofades from before me, and I nod, and sleep.
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Once more the little room, with its open corner cupboard, and its square-backed chairs, and its angular little staircase leading to the room above, and its three peacock's feathers displayed over the mantelpiece - I remember wondering when I first went in, what that peacock would have thought if he had known what his finery was doomed to come to - fades from before me, and I nod, and sleep.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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