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Examples
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Before that, bedding consisted of things like straw-stuffed mattresses laid over meshed ropes.
Too Early to Hire, Cautious CEO Says Timothy Aeppel 2011
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When parents kiss their children good night and say, "Sleep tight," it's a fair bet that neither party realizes that the phrase originated in the era of straw-stuffed mattresses.
Brass Beds and Broomsticks Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010
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Various venues, Sat, coastival.comSGScarecrow Festival, Knutsford, Saturday to 19 FebFreak out kids with 30+ straw-stuffed peeps.
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The cousins spent every Sunday visiting their grandfather, he said, and every summer playing and sleeping together on straw-stuffed mattresses at another relative's home.
Family gathers in District to celebrate centennial of immigration to U.S. from Russia Katherine Shaver 2010
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During Guy Fawkes Day, straw-stuffed effigies of the “guy” are carried by boys and men about the streets on chairs or trestles supported by two poles, like a sedan chair.
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade 2008
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Eliot describes an apocalyptic desert where children spout eerie, blank chants about the cruel, "straw-stuffed" world they have inherited.
Cheryl Lubin: Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan" Cheryl Lubin 2010
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In The Hollow Men, poet T.S. Eliot describes an apocalyptic desert where children spout eerie, blank chants about the cruel, "straw-stuffed" world they have inherited.
Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan" Cheryl Lubin 2010
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In The Hollow Men, poet T.S. Eliot describes an apocalyptic desert where children spout eerie, blank chants about the cruel, "straw-stuffed" world they have inherited.
Cheryl Lubin: Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan" 2010
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You don 't get smudge-cheeked urchins dragging around a set of straw-stuffed pajamas asking "a penny for the Guy" anymore, for instance.
The Real Meaning of Bonfire Night Sam Leith 2010
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Mole was lying on a straw-stuffed pallet on the ground.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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