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Photo: Donald Nicolson The Beast in the process of refurbishment, jacks removed.
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And when one jacks up its prices, the rest follow in lockstep.
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Most members of the profession are depressed steeple-jacks, ex-stevedors, ex-sailors and bums.
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To steady these and hold on by were double shrouds of supple-jacks.
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Notwithstanding their stunted growth, the black-jacks are umbrageous, and give good shade.
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That he had no jackstones was of small moment to him.
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They were scattered as jackstones are scattered from a gigantic throw.
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Our jackstones, by the way, were not stones but bones.
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Only she's lost her jackstones and I can't find mine.
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He's in the pasture playing jackstones with the children.
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She frowned as she rubbed the musk-ox knucklebones together a third time.
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All five knucklebones landed, neatly balanced, on the back of his hand.
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Half a dozen more were playing some complicated game with human knucklebones.
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She groaned as the waves tossed our ship like a gambler tosses knucklebones.
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She held out her palm and offered Lucius the knucklebones.
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No kneeling figures, no Nellie Underwood, no Cyril, no knucklebones.
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Women playing knucklebones: © The Trustees of the British Museum
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I searched Ramesses's face and determined to roll the knucklebones.
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Asha glanced around him, but the other students were rolling knucklebones and playing Senet.
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Some of the men played Senet and rolled knucklebones.
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Two lepers were playing knucklebones with their own fingers.
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Ki made a halfhearted attempt at knucklebones with Barieus and Lynx, but no one could concentrate.
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Crozie and I were wagering with the knucklebones.
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Whiles I played at the knucklebones.
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He had abandoned his wheel and was going through some complicated procedure with several little piles of bleached knucklebones.
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A lemony spray sizzled forth; Eric glossed the rag over the coffee table, the TV, the rocking chair's knucklebones.