How To Use Three-cornered In A Sentence
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And if you're trying to guess who comes out ahead in this three-cornered game of political chess—congressional Republicans, congressional Democrats or the president—it probably will be the president.
Hope Fades for Much Good to Come From Deficit Fight
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The magistrate put on a black cap, a three-cornered piece of silk.
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Drills are to be procured from the various dealers, but can be made from steel wire softened in the fire and filed to a sharp three-cornered point -- afterwards tempered to hardness -- for the smaller eggs, or filed up for the larger eggs to the pattern of a "countersink" used for wood; indeed, the smallest-sized
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Although admirers of Celtic art have often noted that the triquetra (Latin tri quetrus for three-cornered) is an endless and eternal knot, somewhat akin to the great circle of life or the path that comes back to its own beginning, there is actually very little that is known about the origin or meaning of the symbol.
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No -- during those first two years the only pleasures, so memory declared, were three: the visits of the cake-woman on Saturday -- Marcella sitting in her window could still taste the three-cornered puffs and small sweet pears on which, as much from a fierce sense of freedom and self-assertion as anything else, she had lavished her tiny weekly allowance; the mad games of "tig," which she led and organised in the top playground; and the kindnesses of fat Mademoiselle Rénier, Miss
Marcella
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There wasn't anything brutal in the short, broad-backed man with the three-cornered eyes and the forehead that went on to the top of his skull.
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I wiggled my fingers at him, which I am sure looked absolutely ridiculous coming from a woman wearing breeches, boots, a shirt, hair braided back, and a three-cornered hat.
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But the slower wits, such as Mr. Solomon and Mrs. Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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a three-cornered race
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Officers' hats seem at first to have been a tricorne - or three-cornered - hat which was universal wear for gentlemen in the 1600s and beyond.
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A group of well-dressed men and women - the men in three-cornered hats, the women in long dresses - are promenading conspicuously beside the river.
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In a tight, three-cornered, contest, they could yet sneak through to leave the other bids floundering.
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At his fancy-dress party, Armstrong, already huge, augments his volume with tails, a heavy cloak with a triple tippet, and a three-cornered hat.
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In its coverage the M&G described a three-cornered scheme in which PetroSA (public) money was chandelled to the ANC via Imvume, effectively its front company.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Third, after a terrific three-cornered fight, were David Hoskins and David James.
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Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.
SIWASH
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It is time to employ this legacy in the polarised republican debate to overturn the presumptions that have created a three-cornered contest between monarchists, minimalist republicans and direct-election advocates.
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These comments underlined a three-cornered row which saw the Government and two Opposition parties bickering over how to proceed.
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These things mean far more to mean than catchy campaign slogans or three-cornered hats ever could.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: Tea Partiers: Be Careful What You Wish For
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The election itself was a three-cornered contest for the first time since 1929.
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In April, the Liberal and National parties reached an agreement to end three-cornered contests, but the Liberal Party executive will decide whether to run candidates in the seats of Clarence and Tweed at a meeting on June 21.
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The historic three-cornered contest took place in an atmosphere charged with tension and excitement, both in and out of the Congress hall.
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But Holden would not accept this point of view; and soon a three-cornered debate between Holden, Bourne and Traveller was raging.
ANTI-ICE
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If the two spouses do not agree there arises a three-cornered conflict to determine which one of them will be widowed.
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Brahmans, who shave their heads, leaving only one long central lock, and wear turbans of blinding red, decorated in front with a sort of golden horn of plenty; Bangas, wearing three-cornered helmets with a kind of cockscomb on the top; Kachhis, with Roman helmets; Bhillis, from the borders of Rajastan, whose chins are wrapped three times in the ends of their pyramidal turbans, so that the innocent tourist never fails to think that they constantly suffer from toothache; Bengalis and Calcutta
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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He surfaced between Noll and Maria, splashing them both and sparking off some three-cornered horseplay.
THE ONLY GAME
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Langley put her hat back on her head - a three-cornered gray thing that had seen too much action.
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As a result, a three-cornered contest ensued with the former ruling party, the internal opposition and the RPF jockeying for position in a ‘broad-based transitional government’.
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He only got 24 percent of the vote in 2000 and his performance in a similar three-cornered rematch would almost certainly be worse.
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Then they sat down to a three-cornered game of 'cut-throat,' -- a proceeding which did away with all casus belli for future hostilities, and permitted the victor to depart on a most important mission.
THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
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Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.
SIWASH
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He is dressed in black, the only suit of the color in town — if we except that of the sexton, which is known to be an offcast of the Parson's — kerseymere coat, silk breeches and stockings; he has on a three-cornered hat, a fleece-like wig, white bands and black silk gloves.
Margaret
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If you took away all the cars and traffic lights, you wouldn't be entirely surprised to run into someone wearing breeches and a three-cornered hat.
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A three-cornered hat was propped up on the bedpost.
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But the slower wits, such as Mr. Solomon and Mr.. Waule, who both occupied land of their own, took a long time to arrive at this conclusion, their minds halting at the vivid conception of what it would be to cut the Big Pasture in two, and turn it into three-cornered bits, which would be "nohow;" while accommodation-bridges and high payments were remote and incredible.
Middlemarch
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The bait is a 'lask,' or long three-cornered strip of skin, cut from the tail of a mackerel.
A Poor Man's House
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They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats.
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It was a “three-cornered struggle” with Russian revolutionaries against counterrevolutionaries and national minorities resisting both.20 And this shorthand leaves out a fourth corner, that of the Black Army led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.21 This stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars.
Bloodlust
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They finally reached a complicated three-cornered deal in which McFee bought the I Spy for himself, Lazarus delivered clear title to it unmortgaged and accepted McFee's unsecured note in payment, then purchased the freighter by endorsing McFee's note back to him and adding cash.
The Past Through Tomorrow
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Some feel that a different type of personality could have captured this neglected demographic in what has become a three-cornered fight.
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The audience sit in a sort of three-cornered arrangement facing the main platform.
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He's usually the one in three-cornered hat when he does his regular turn in period dramas on TV and the big screen.
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In the original historic area, authentic shopfronts tempt visitors inside to buy three-cornered hats and bonnets, quills and ink, block-printed stationery and sealing wax, candles, soaps, hams, jams, brass and pewter.
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The three-cornered argument spread with the speed of a burning fuse to other tables.
EDEN BURNING
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Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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Most iconic is the mouthless bauta , typically worn with a three-cornered hat and black cloak, which turns every wearer into an impersonator of Casanova.
The Masked Charms of Venice's Carnival
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The neck was dressed with a layer of four or five three-cornered cravats, artistically laid, and surmounted with a cambrick stock, pleated and buckled behind.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
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The slave trade involved a three-cornered system of exchange.
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Take the three-cornered drug market that links cocaine growers in Latin America, traffickers in West Africa, and users in Europe.
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I think accepting the short-term pain of a few three-cornered contests is a lesser evil than the present situation.
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A group of well-dressed men and women - the men in three-cornered hats, the women in long dresses - are promenading conspicuously beside the river.
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The three-cornered needle jammed in the damp leather, and he suspended work for the moment.
SIWASH
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Matthews and I put up some three-cornered shelves, on which I kept about a hundred books such as children like, and young people who are no longer children; and then, as I sat reading, writing, or stood fussing over my fuchsias or labelling the mineralogical specimens, there would come in one or another nice girl or boy, to borrow a "Rollo" or a "Franconia," or to see if Ellen Liston had returned "Amy Herbert.
How to Do It
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These almond-filled pastries are shaped like three-cornered hats - thus the name.
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A three-cornered hat is also worn on special occasions and ceremonies.
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Expect the issue to run and run in three-cornered rural contests, and in the Legislative Council contest.
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At one time it is a pompous banquet in a superb saloon festooned with gold, with tall lustrous windows and pale crimson curtains, the doge in his simarre dining with the magistrates in purple robes, and masked guests gliding over the floor; nothing is more elegant than the exquisite aristocracy of their small feet, their slender necks and their jaunty little three-cornered hats among skirts flounced with yellow or pearly gray silks.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
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Most iconic is the mouthless bauta , typically worn with a three-cornered hat and black cloak, which turns every wearer into an impersonator of Casanova.
The Masked Charms of Venice's Carnival
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As a result, Italy had rarely been free from foreign domination and the three-cornered contests between Spain, France, and Austria had left deep imprints on every aspect of its history.
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Then they sat down to a three-cornered game of 'cut-throat,' -- a proceeding which did away with all casus belli for future hostilities, and permitted the victor to depart on a most important mission.
THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
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The flowering Rush, or water gladiole, which grows by the banks of rivers is called botanically "butomus," from the Greek, _bous_, an ox, and _temno_, to cut, because the sharp edges of the erect three-cornered leaf-blades wound the cattle which come in contact with them, or try to eat them.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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We proposed to make it a Midshipman Easy duel, a three-cornered fight -- Brothers Homan and Benson vs. the "Apostle," but they wiggled in and they wiggled out, they temporized and tergiversated until we saw there wasn't an ounce of fight in the whole Prohibition crew -- that, after their flamboyant defi, we couldn't pull 'em into a joint debate with a span of mules and a log-cabin.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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Georgiana pulled her own over her eyes and nose, and placed a three-cornered hat on her head for good measure.
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Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat.
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November | Edwardian Promenade
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a three-cornered hat
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They all wore their full-dress diplomatic uniforms with the characteristic three-cornered plumed hats.
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But from the late 1950s to the mid 1970s UK manufacturing was smashed in a three-cornered war of attrition between incompetent management, militant trade unions and high-tax government.
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The bourgeois in the middle, extending his three-cornered hat in the direction of the traveler, has twisted his head and shoulders toward his companion.