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* Jean (Dale Arden) Rogers was beautiful, competent, and charming in Let's Make Music, a real pile of carpet-sweepings from a Hollywood cutting-room floor -- featuring popular bandleader Bob Crosby.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

Glory be to God! "said Mrs. Darcy, appealing to an imaginary audience," he calls the sweepings of the altar, and the clane ashes, dirt.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

Nitre is found in Bengal naturally crystallized, and is swept by brooms from earths and stones, and thence called sweepings of nitre.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

The picturesque High Street should be followed past the Town Hall with its alien Carolean front, and the long wall of Purbeck House that is said to be made up from the "sweepings" of the Albert Memorial at

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

At evening I sallied out and bought a loaf of bread, half a pound of tea ( "sweepings," they call it, and it cost eightpence), a tin kettle (fivepence), a pound of sugar, a tin of Swiss milk, and a tin of American potted meat.

The Stark Munro Letters 1894

At evening I sallied out and bought a loaf of bread, half a pound of tea ( "sweepings," they call it, and it cost eightpence), a tin kettle (fivepence), a pound of sugar, a tin of Swiss milk, and a tin of American potted meat.

The Stark Munro Letters Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

It may, perhaps, be well to explain that the "sweepings" consisted of an annual sum of threepence which every householder contributed towards the cleaning of the church, and which represented a large part of the clerk's salary [84].

The Parish Clerk 1892

Rousseau also found that those "sweepings" were tossed in a charnel house, where the remains were mingled in a large pit beneath the crypt floor.

Boston.com Most Popular 2009

"Weeds have also been spread about via the sweepings from pet-food shops" and by ships dumping ballast.

Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

March 29th, 2010 at 9: 24 pm dbadass says: hmmmm pressed peanut sweepings …. artifical roasting agent …

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