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Examples
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In New Orleans she'd have banked it, but here there wasn't a strong-room worth the name.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Associated Press A policeman stands guard as an official carries electronic voting machines from a strong-room at a counting center in Mumbai.
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Gautam Singh/Associated Press A policeman stood guard outside a strong-room where the electronic voting machines were stored at a counting center in Mumbai Friday.
Era of Stability 2009
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Gautam Singh/Associated Press A policeman stands guard as an official carries electronic voting machines from a strong-room at a counting center in Mumbai.
Era of Stability 2009
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And that was why, when they came and took me, they found all your securities untouched in the strong-room of the bank.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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I saw them before my eyes like living shapes, that night when I stood in the strong-room with the candle in my hand.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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And that was why, when they came and took me, they found all your securities untouched in the strong-room of the bank.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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I saw them before my eyes like living shapes, that night when I stood in the strong-room with the candle in my hand.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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And after the Bank, the post office was the likeliest place to be stuck up, if not THE likeliest; for the Bank Manager had a strong-room, and no doubt a revolver, too ... besides being a man.
Ultima Thule 2003
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Up to that time the Moonstone was safe in the strong-room of the bank.
The Moonstone 2003
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