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Usage examples of clipping.

Now, in my opinion, this can only be a preparation for a take-over of Battersea, an erosion of our freedom, a new and subtle kind of slavery and a clipping of ears.

Above you and around you are beams and joists, on some of which you may see, when the light is let in, the marks of the conchoidal clippings of the broadaxe, showing the rude way in which the timber was shaped as it came, full of sap, from the neighboring forest.

He then surprised Jim by retrieving and inspecting his tether cord, sliding his hand up to the end, and clipping the carabiner back on the guide wire again.

I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.

Alston put her helmet back on, swinging down the new hinged cheekpieces and clipping them together under her chin.

There was a clipping from the Duluth paper with a yellow Post-it note stuck to it.

A press clipping of Devon Greenway, hair slicked back, dressed in a tuxedo as he shook hands with some politician.

It contained a clipping from his hometown paper, the Southern Illinoisan, about the accidental electrocution of one Ivar McCray.

Relatives of hers in Lockmaster send her clippings of my column now and then.

Hal was on the edge of the bed with one leg up and his chin on its knee, clipping his nails into a wastebasket that sat several meters away in the middle of the room.

The first clipping is dated not long after newlyweds Saul and Miriam moved in together.

Her colleagues were talking too fast and clipping the ends of their sentences off in a way that suggested they were barely managing to remain within the Federation guidelines for nondiscriminatory civil speech.

The second notebook held clippings from papers as diverse as The Oregonian and The New York Times.

Diocesan reports, financial statements, dozens of scrapbooks crammed with clippings, both pasted in and loose.

I explained that I had been studying clippings about Poe and had noticed important inconsistencies.