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  • They've just changed the packaging it used to be a fairly odd-looking square-topped white plastic bottle that held onto the last ounce with a tenacity rarely seen in bath products.

    Random Holiday Gift #2 - A Dress A Day 2006

  • They've just changed the packaging it used to be a fairly odd-looking square-topped white plastic bottle that held onto the last ounce with a tenacity rarely seen in bath products.

    December 2006 2006

  • Quarantined yet again outside the harbor—another cholera scare—the Quaker City passengers could only gaze wistfully through telescopes at the square-topped Acropolis and the Parthenon that crowned it.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Quarantined yet again outside the harbor—another cholera scare—the Quaker City passengers could only gaze wistfully through telescopes at the square-topped Acropolis and the Parthenon that crowned it.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Cars rattled up the street, square-topped Model-Ts and open-roofed touring cars.

    Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994

  • Cars rattled up the street, square-topped Model-Ts and open-roofed touring cars.

    Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994

  • One lancer came running from the melee, his square-topped hat in one hand, his other hand pressed to a running wound in his scalp.

    Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

  • Like the one leading from the great hall to the chapel, it was studded with square-topped iron nails and had a heavy ring for a handle.

    Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

  • Hill after blue hill rose into the distance where a great chain of mountains lifted to one square-topped and white.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • Separated by roof-shafts of unusual bulk, their responds consist each of three engaged shafts with a fourth to carry the aisle-vault; and the bases, rectangular but with the upper mouldings following the pillar, are united with those of the roof-shafts, while the capitals as usual are square-topped.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

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