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  • You had a tin-lined, zinc-lined wooden box, and you put a big chunk of ice inside it.

    The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt 2010

  • In Bexley, Roald had set up his own “very smart”23 darkroom with shuttered windows and zinc-lined sink.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • You had a tin-lined, zinc-lined wooden box, and you put a big chunk of ice inside it.

    The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt 2010

  • Richard created a small mud room for the side entrance (previously you entered directly into the tiny old kitchen), with beadboard walls and a few eccentricities, such as a zinc-lined boot tray, to fool visitors into thinking it was original to the house.

    Danielle Crittenden: The Reno: Preserving Happy House Karma 2008

  • He wants to hurry to a lavatory, a zinc-lined room with a bar of untouched oval soap, a torrent of hot water and a swansdown towel that has never been used by anyone else.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He wants to hurry to a lavatory, a zinc-lined room with a bar of untouched oval soap, a torrent of hot water and a swansdown towel that has never been used by anyone else.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He wants to hurry to a lavatory, a zinc-lined room with a bar of untouched oval soap, a torrent of hot water and a swansdown towel that has never been used by anyone else.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Her actions startled the two women, mother and daughter, at the zinc-lined dry sink; they looked up with expressions of curiosity in their hazel eyes while Holly rattled off a peculiar mix of Polish and Czechoslovakian under her breath.

    SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

  • 'Atrophied taste-buds, a zinc-lined stomach, a little imagination and you could be in Maxim's.

    Partisans MacLean, Alistair 1982

  • In the panel of the wall he opened a small secret drawer, zinc-lined, and put the will in it.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

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