How To Use By hand In A Sentence
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Oh - and I want a food mixer of some sort, because creaming butter and sugar by hand is not a lot of fun.
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Ed would drill by hand and blast away the rock, exposing the pegmatite.
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She smoothed paste wax on the old red linoleum and buffed it by hand.
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When you think that we craftsmen who make all these things by hand, it follows that piece is different; these are all timeless pieces.
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VARIOUS LEATHER PICTURE, It's a high classic decoration , made by hand, use nature color and veins of leather to make design, it shows obvious stereoscopy like relief sculpture but softly .
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Unless you live in a developed city, you do your laundry by hand, and no matter where you live, you hang it out to dry.
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After they are separated, the keepers feed the chicks by hand and must teach them to swallow whole fish.
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The hot-cross buns are still iced by hand in the bakery, and the produce comes primarily from local growers in season.
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I sewed by hand and by machine.
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A pole has no reel and fish are drawn in by removing sections of the pole one at a time, by hand.
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Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
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The list can be prepared by hand, using your own notebook or a booklet available free from many insurance agents.
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He surprised me by handing me his hat.
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This may be done by hand, or in a mixer with the dough-hook on the slowest speed.
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Try pin-tucking fabric, or couching down decorative threads, embroider by hand or by machine on the fronts, or even try beading an evening vest.
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The suit was sewn up along the seams by hand.
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Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand.
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Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said.
Pumpkin Farmers Profit From Odd, Ugly Varieties
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Some local governments are requiring stall-feeding of livestock with forage gathered by hand, hoping that this confinement measure will permit grasslands to recover.
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It is made by hand and looks like little circles of woven dough.
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Blitz for a few seconds until the dough clumps together (if doing this by hand it may take longer).
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Maya Romanoff This wallcover from Maya Romanoff has genuine capiz shell tiles, inlaid by hand.
Wallcovers That Do More Than Just Cover Walls
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After clothes and linens had been thoroughly rubbed and scrubbed using homemade soap made from beef tallow and lye (soap-making is another whole story), they were wrung out by hand and placed in a second tub to be rinsed.
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One early focus was the company's commissary, which imported olive oil, cheese, and other ingredients from Italy and then made sauces, salad dressings, and pastas by hand.
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All details of her woodcarvings, even the villi, or small hairs on the stem of each plant, are done by hand with a knife.
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Copy the articles or excerpts by hand underlining those words and phrases that you think are significant in the creation of mood and/or atmosphere.
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The first and most likely type to have been used in the Saxon period, is basically a cartwheel mounted horizontally on a pivot, the wheel being rotated by hand or with a stick.
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Signal your intention to change the lane in good time by using the blinker and if necessary, by hand signalling, says the handbook.
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They were trained by handspikes with the aid of side-tackle and their recoil was limited by a stout rope, called the breeching, the ends of which were secured to the sides of the ship.
Marvels of Modern Science
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In the early days of the industry, that aspect was quite labour intensive as the seed was sown by hand into fertilized drills.
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The meat at the base of the neck was "basted" with chambira, to prevent its wearing and wasting away by handling in the succeeding operations.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
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I know how it amuses him to reward loyalty by handfuls; how he likes to make a test of friends.
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Avoid accidents with the strimmer by protecting young trees with plastic tubes or weed by hand.
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Bring the dough together with a palette knife first and then by hand.
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For other works, conservation treatments include reducing stains with a mixture of distilled water and ethyl alcohol; removing glue with a cotton swab dipped in de-ionized water; humidifying and flattening pages; and resewing bindings by hand.
The New York Public Library: From Vault to Exhibition Gallery: Conserving Library Treasures
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I think the single most important change for developers in the past 25 years has been the improvements in IDEs and debuggers that automate a lot of the programming and debugging tasks that people used to have to do laboriously by hand.
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We received a typewritten letter with a note added by hand.
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After decades of producing small arms by hand, by 1842 the armories introduced large-scale assembly of muskets from uniform, interchangeable parts.
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Delicate clothes should be washed by hand.
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Warnings had to be keypunched by hand into a paper tape and fed through a reader.
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We had to wash our clothes by hand.
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In many cases, framers are ‘customizing’ custom framing jobs by hand-making the frame or staining and gold leafing moulding, marbleizing matboard or etching glass.
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Election boards will count the ballots by hand.
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It's funny, I was surprised to read that you've never creamed butter by hand -- something about your style and the pleasure you take in drawing out the lusciousness of simple things doesn't jibe with that.
Like a lullaby
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They are all prepared by hand and are a work of art, almost too beautiful to eat.
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This allowed most of the leaf-base tissue to be ground away, leaving the unground portion of the crown clearly visible for removal by hand and subsequent grinding separately.
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Archery is like darts, except that the arrows are launched, not by hand, but by a recurve bow.
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Oversized dungarees and long-sleeved shirts were the most practical items to put on in the morning, especially since the majority of girls, unused to farm tools, preferred to do their jobs by hand.
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Machine pistol after strafing, afresh by hand gun's solving by luck don't die of, an all don't stay, the half naught of passes.
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For the buttercream, beat the butter by hand or with an electric mixer until pale.
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These beautiful fish have been found in railway cuttings, brick pits and building sites across Sydney, particularly back in the days when excavations were done mostly by hand.
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He cradled the grain with a scythe and tied it by hand with straw.
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At the north end of the property, beside the distillery's main building there was the bottling works where the bottles were filled by hand and placed on a conveyor running several feet to the labeller.
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It may be powered by hand, pedal, or other motive force such as a suitably geared lawn mower engine or the electric motor taken from a discarded washing machine.
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Excommunication threatened the eternal life of heretics and schismatics, while the Holy Inquisition concentrated the minds of defiant Catholics by handing them over to the civil power for a spot of torture or burning.
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Plasters and stuccos are spread by hand or trowel, or sprayed on with a mechanical sprayer or pump.
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BTW in the picture above, you can see I pinned the pleats to the middle zipper section: I had to sew them by hand (and sewing through naughahyde without a thimble is rough, I'll tell you!).
Purse Diary: Nighttime Sewing Marathon #2
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Every single car is built by hand at the company's headquarters near Turin.
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Care for hologram stretch knits by turning garments inside out and laundering them by hand; air dry.
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He held his pale, grubby hand out towards Janet with two twinkling things in it.
CHARMED LIFE
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My gun was real, the bullets were real, and the holster was real leather stitched by hand.
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The grunion is and was a protected fish, and catching them by hand as they lay their eggs is not only cruel and stupid but also illegal.
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The gun-carriage is rolled forward into firing position by handspikes or block and tackle.
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For example, the Gibbs team used to make motor mounts by hand out of steel.
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This yields a small amount of oil which is scooped off by hand.
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A machine stitch is better and more professional looking, but you can sew a garment together by hand.
"The Pink Rose" by Federico Andreotti (1847-1930)
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The builders used greywacke from the Rangitata River and limestone brought from Mount Somers and shaped the rocks by hand.
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Winston rods are made by hand in Twin Bridges, MT, unlike Orvis and their $775 Helios, which is made in China, and they have the same "lifetime" warranty as Orvis, or any other rod that inevitably falls short of a true work of art from R.L. WINSTON ROD CO.
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In an age when many shops use decals or masking tape and spray paint, Olin still paints his pinstripes by hand.
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All jumpers, cardigans and socks were knitted by hand.
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The prime minister has just won an election with a reduced majority and is celebrating by handbagging the European Union.
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The clothes were deposited in the tub with soap flakes and soda, then swirled around by hand, using a wooden paddle, a long and hot process.
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It is an essential mechanism of language to assemble by name what is toilsome or impossible to assemble by hand.
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A careful restoration from 2004-2006 included Rudolph's dropped covered walkway rebuilt between house and carport, built-in furnishings around living room pit rebuilt by hand to Rudolph's specs, restore the rolling walls along east side of house, fascia, overhangs, posts, screen porch off living room pit.
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The shirring was stressful – I did it by hand in the end.
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Large cotton throw block printed and fully overstitched by hand.
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She held her feather duster by handle.
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After the initial biscuit firing, all tableware is glazed by hand, before the glost firing.
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According to the symbol on the label, this sweater should be washed by hand.
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Knead it by hand a couple of times on a flat, floured surface.
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The first railways were built entirely by hand labour by teams of navvies.
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She had a mechanic who built an air-conditioner compressor by hand at a substantial savings to buying a new one.
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After 1959, he devoted himself to film, and his later photographic pieces are often printed directly from film strips or stills with text written by hand.
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The Saddle is fitted with yoke-mounted roll-screw and nut elevating gear actuated by handwheels on either side of the saddle.
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A technique that has been practiced for hundreds of years, kalamkari is a process of creating designs on fabric by hand, either by painting or using carved wood blocks dipped in natural dyes derived from plants, roots, earth, and rock.
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They got too tall to clear out with the cultivator, so Fred and I and the two other farm hands had to hoe a six-acre field by hand.
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The competition saw some original ideas in the form of cartoons and intricate designs woven by hands-on-hands in the ‘mehndi’ section.
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Today's NASA, in contrast, is focused on re-engineering big, expensive expendable rockets provided by hand-picked favorite contractors to launch throw-away spacecraft (also provided by hand-picked favorite contractors) whose designs are shackled to ancient architectural mentalities driven almost entirely by lunar access expediencies instead of long-term operational sustainability considerations.
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To add to this assurance of quality, Graham fillets each fish by hand, which allows him to monitor every single fish that passes through the Smokehouse.
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In the past, all Kimber rifles were stocked in claro walnut and checkered by hand, with quite traditional looks.
The 5-Pound Deer Gun
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The product is flexible and easily formed by hand at the job site and is used for weep holes, horizontal and vertical masonry surfaces, parapets, or copings.
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The fictile vessels are all of a very primitive nature, being entirely moulded by hand, and showing no trace of the use of the potter's wheel.
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It is wonderfully satisfying to make these pictures by hand, patiently, with pencil and paper, compass and straightedge.
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Thinning of fruitlets by hand is often impossible due to labour cost and availability.
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Dump the seeds into a dry pan, sort by hand and store in airtight glass jars until you're ready to plant or eat them.
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Wind thicker threads on a bobbin by hand, use regular sewing thread in the needle, and stitch with the right side down.
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Mixed in pits, the cob is then formed into small loaves, which are deposited on the foundation, then massaged and shaped by hand.
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Because the whole firing mechanism housing can be simply removed from the frame by hand, it's both easily maintained and repaired in the field and as a separate sub-assembly, vastly simplifies production of the pistol itself.
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To add to this assurance of quality, Graham fillets each fish by hand, which allows him to monitor every single fish that passes through the Smokehouse.
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They rip up old track quickly and lay new track much faster than can be completed by hand.
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‘I used to checker every pair by hand, but I bought a CNC,’ laments the reluctant Luddite.
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All tooling marks are removed by hand polishing.
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It was said that peace is made by hand-to-hand fights in which single pairs of opponents fight until the _datus_ who act as umpires award the victory to one or the other.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
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It is done by hand, using a lathe to spin the barrel and a skilled touch with fine emery paper to polish the barrel to fit the bushing.
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Hitherto one of the chief objections to the use of the tricycle has been the great difficulty experienced in climbing hills, a very slight ascent being sufficient to tax the powers of the rider to such an extent as to induce if not compel him in most instances to dismount and wheel his machine along by hand until more favorable ground is reached.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
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The table, made of maple and walnut, features curved legs, intricate dovetailed joints made by hand and dowels and biscuits to connect the various pieces.
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As yet, in order to get a reasonable number of nuts for planting, I have to cross-pollinize them by hand, and
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
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Construction projects in Kenya can be long and gruelling: foundations are dug with pickaxes and even cement must mixed by hand.
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I remember having to churn ice cream by hand - no fridges in those days… huge blocks of ice came from New Plymouth encased in sacking and had to be broken up to make the ice cream.
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When the wine is heated to the point where air bubbles are rising to the top (it must not boil), stir and add the cheese by handfuls, each time allowing the cheese to dissolve before adding the next bunch.
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You can also grate the crumbs by hand using a cheese grater.
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Each spear is harvested by hand, and most cans are hand-packed, demanding countless hours of back-breaking field and factory labor - the cheaper the better.
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The best food to have is mutton, eaten by hand, or an entire goat.
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Until Bonsack's invention, cigarettes had been rolled by hand by young women.
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The first half will include a soprano duet by Handel and a composition by Philip Martin for viola, cello and piano.
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After being told they would not be permitted into the event ‘with sticks’, several members ripped their signs off the handles and carried them in by hand.
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Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on.
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He was a carpenter after all, and I am told that carpenters in those days chopped their own trees and milled the wood by hand. and he was semitic. and he was called a glutton and a drunkard by his detractors, so maybe he had a belly and a red nose?
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It is plain as a pikestaff that if exposed to the incredulous view of the Taxpayer, who, by now, has a pretty clear view of some of the potential abuses, the floor of the House of Commons cellars would soon be awash with the blood of MPs caught with their grubby hands in the till.
'Shred & Bury': The New Westminster Watchword
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The fibres damaged the skin on the women's hands if their job was to comb the flax by hand.
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Earthenware jars containing it were to be flung by hand or arbalist, and darts and arrows were wrapped with tow soaked in the substance.
A History of Sea Power
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But do expect it to be sticky — if you knead it by hand I would keep it to a minimum, rather than overloading it with flour to keep it kneadable.
Laura’s Not 7 Grain Multi Grain Honey Bread
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A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing.
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Ultimately, I think there are two kinds of people in this world: those that have the patience for picking pumpkin guck off of seeds by hand, and those that don't.
Toasted Pumpkin Seeds to the 3rd power
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Blind stitching on the edges by hand or blind hemmer machine would take away from the "stitchy" look of top stitching.
Fashion Sewing on A Budget ... and the Walk-Away Dress! - A Dress A Day
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Palmer christened his new approach chiropractic, meaning “done by hand,” from the Greek words cheir for hand, and praxis for practice.
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While the fit is superb I would prefer a gun you can push the takedown pin out on by hand.
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This firm republished it last year (1881) in chromo-lithography, but in 1846 it was produced in outline by lithography, and coloured by hand by a colourer of that time named Mason, when it could not have been sold for less than a shilling.
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The initial section of tunnel had to be dug by hand.
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Repeated friction of the legs by hand-rubbing and warmth by bandaging and by rubbing the surface of the body with turpentine and alcohol, which is immediately to be dried by rough towels, will excite the circulation and stimulate the emunctories of the skin.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Whiz the bread to rough crumbs in a food processor, or grate it by hand.
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For regular applications or those applications whose topologies coincide with that of multiprocessor system, it is feasible to assign tasks to processors by hand.
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In particular, the ES&S scanner lock was easily picked with a paper clip during our tests, while the "unpickable" lock on the Sequoia scanner was bypassed by removing a few screws and pulling out the lock cylinder from the scanner's chassis by hand.
'Fatally Flawed' Systems Await Voters: 'Drastic Change Needed'
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The initial section of tunnel had to be dug by hand.
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Reapers and binders enabled farmers to harvest from ten to twenty acres of grain per day, depending on field conditions, with far less labor than that required to cut the grain with a scythe and rake and bind the sheaves by hand.
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In a very short time he would bang down a metal plate with your food on it; and afterwards, a smaller plate with a paper chit, with the amount due written by hand.
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Mr McGrath says the rocks thrown at the beginning of the attack seemed to have been lobbed by hand, but the one that hit him appeared to have been fired from a slingshot.
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Later this year, on 23 July, the City of Johannesburg will confer its highest honour on Mandela by handing him the freedom of the city.
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In the 1950s we scaled and cleaned teeth mainly by hand ultrasonic scalers and efficient aspirators of particulate matter and spray had yet to appear.
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She addressed them by hand in her beautiful italic script.
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Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on
Chapter 16
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Candidates and their scrutineers can watch as as the ballots are counted by hand.
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I found Moodie and Monaghan employed in piling up heaps of bush near the house, which they intended to burn off by hand previous to firing the rest of the fallow, to prevent any risk to the building from fire.
Roughing It in the Bush
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The builders used greywacke from the Rangitata River and limestone brought from Mount Somers and shaped the rocks by hand.
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The frozen water surface will have to be picked up by hand.
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Ventilation consists of louvers and wide double doors at each end that are opened by hand.
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It is me who, while still being beaten, raises the anchor by hand because they have already stolen the control cable that operates the windlass.
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The term chiropractic itself comes from the Greek words cheir (hand) and praxis (action) to describe treatment done by hand or hands-on treatment.
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Removing the larvae by hand by slitting the stem and digging out the grubs with a knife is labor-intensive, but effective.
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Most problems can be cleared by hand, using rubber gloves to lift debris from the bottom of the gulley.
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Dug by hand, the miles upon miles of tunnels were a remarkable achievement of both cleverness and will.
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In some places women were employed at the hardest work, such as coaling ships by hand and digging and carrying earth from canals and ditches.
The Critic in the Orient
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Over three months, the gardeners pulled out the weeds by hand, dug and prepared the ground, and replanted with flowering evergreen shrubs such as hebes and mahonia, for year-round colour and low maintenance.
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The initial section of tunnel had to be dug by hand.
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The package had been delivered by hand.
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Clean the lip of the cassette and rewind by hand, still in darkness.
Photographers Handbook
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Comprised of selected blends of clay and shale, paving brick is molded and pressed into shape either by machine or by hand.
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As a card carrying neocon of the PNAC persuasion, he thinks that all this namby-pamby handwringing about poverty is rubbish.
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Accordingly, the disadvantages of many labor needing, difficult hanging, inconvenience, etc. existing when the existing tractor trailer can be generally hung only by hands are overcome.
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He surprised me by handing me his hat.
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The villagers used to pound the grain into flour by hand.
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But advertising watchdogs have found the French design house guilty of misleading customers with two advertisements depicting its 'craftsmen' - because the bags are not actually made by hand.
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Once inside you can see how the upper and lower receivers have been carefully fitted together by hand.
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Instead, they harvest their own, store it and then prepare it by hand, a painstaking process that includes washing away the resinlike saponin coating that protects the seeds.
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Shimming is done electronically, with the operator entering data that moves the tool up or down, eliminating the need to shim by hand.
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On the quayside fishwives gut fish by hand and the catch is kippered by traditional methods.
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The bank engraves banknote images into metal plates by hand and uses special inks and watermarks to prevent forgery.
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It featured broach cut rifling, was lapped by hand, and was made from 4140 carbon steel.
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It's simply a matter of pulling out one printed circuit board and inserting another by hand.
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The noise in the tunnel was deafening, the dust-filled air practically unbreathable, and in some places the rock drilled out ahead had to be scooped up by hand, passed under the stomach, and kicked back with the feet to men with buckets who, in turn, had to squirm back to the face of the cliff to dump their loads.
Colossus
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While there had always been freight delivered by ship, it had to be transhipped, largely by hand.
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The importance of preparing these sheets by hand is a matter of time-honored tradition.
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Did you actually think that there's someone employed to painstakingly think up playlists for radio stations and write them up by hand or something?
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Paper was printed by hand using wooden blocks and distemper paint, which dried to a soft, matt finish.
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He wears brown, doesn't care much for his appearance and works as a clerk copying out binary code by hand with three equally geeky colleagues.
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The tramming of ore by hand through such a distance would cost about double the amount to hoist it through
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration
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Mix either with an electric mixer or by hand.
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He has printed out his latest graph in black and white and is contentedly preoccupied with colouring in the pieces of pie by hand.
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By the mid-'60s, rather than painting dots by hand or stippling them with a dog-grooming brush as in some of his earlier works, he began to employ a dot stencil that he made by drilling holes in a sheet of aluminum.
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There are climbing frames, swing boats, a host of slides, a timber fort, an Indiana Jones-style wooden bridge, paddling pool, sandpit, pedalo boats and a little ferry boat, which can be propelled along by hand.
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You could also spread the bug to other foods just by handling the melon.
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HOLC is too complicated to explain, and doesn't speak directly to the liquidity problem to make it some kind of lodestone for fighting the Paulson / Bush bill, which essentially gets around the unconstitutionality issue by pressuring congress to give up their constitutional mandate by handing it over, no questions asked, to the executive.
Corrente
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Some of the sherwanis worn by the Maharajas of those days must have taken one whole month to put together, with everything done by hand.
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The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs called trunnels, or ‘tree nails.’
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Wash by hand and do not wring or tumble-dry.
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The art of xylography consists of sample writing, carving, printing and binding, all done by hand, Xu said.
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They got too tall to clear out with the cultivator, so Fred and I and the two other farm hands had to hoe a six-acre field by hand.
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You can pump up the tyres by hand or with this special machine.
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Joy, whose family owns a cocoa plantation in Trinidad, makes her own chocolates by hand.
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Sackloads of bulbs were delivered by post and by hand.
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The first draft I write by hand in my local library, where the room is so grim there is nothing else to distract me, so I concentrate on the writing just to get out of there.
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Looking back at the early operations of the trade, and considering that steel pens were made by hand at the beginning of the present century, we can scarcely understand why the idea of cheapening the production by the application of labor-saving contrivances did not occur to those inventive geniuses, the proprietors of Soho.
The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced
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The inspector said: ‘We had one owner who managed to take the clamp off by hand but we managed to trace the vehicle and fine him.’
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We use a small electric seeder, but you can do it by hand.
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Shred meat by hand or in short bursts in food processor.
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You can either use a belt linisher or if you are sanding by hand I find that a slightly convex cork block keeps the face from becoming rounded.
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Likewise, Mr. Townsend's hog-skinning machinery mechanized a process that formerly had been done by hand, by a worker with a drawknife skinning a ham held in a kind of vice.
Inventor Had Relish for Hot Dog Making
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The fierce agave spines make for treacherous farming conditions; the maguey must be collected by hand.
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The Compaction Detector is a soil penetrometer cone and shaft pushed by a hydraulic cylinder, rather than by hand, into the ground.
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They opened with 15 employees and about 500 members, most of whom they solicited by handing out fliers in the mall.
