A device used to sharpen pencils by shaving the wood at one end.
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Will he replace John Bruton as the leading poll-topper in the State?
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You seem to me to have the making of an absolute topper!
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The answer is in the feather topper used by the professionals.
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The boy inspected the old blue coat, the topper, and the worn gloves.
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Texas hit the stage with aplomb, launching straight into recent chart-topper In Demand.
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It is wonderful what a sharpener of the poor wits hunger is!
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The last thing I took from my bag was my pencil sharpener.
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One by one, I inserted the lead ends into the sharpener.
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They have paper and colored pencils and even a little sharpener.
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The notes seemed to keep time to the hand of the sickle- sharpener.
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It is derived from the French parer to parry, and chute a fall.
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It's about time you learnt your mistake, you old cheese-parer!
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Guy said "Thank you" and began to turn the parer eagerly.
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The countess remained looking at the parer for a time, then she raised her tearful eyes to the face of the empress.
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No better nut-crackers and fruit-parers could possibly be found.
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The last thing I took from my bag was my pencil sharpener.
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At the Concordia Institute, in Conn., the electric pencil sharpener turns up missing.
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Now her ass is about as inviting as a pencil sharpener.
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His job there is that of head pencil sharpener, he says.
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And I got a new pencil sharpener for our department.