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Attach your sneakers to your sleeping bag with a metal curtain ring; your gloves and canteen can dangle from a metal shower curtain ring or a ... Attach a sturdy metal shower curtain ring to your belt and slip your hammer through it.
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A curtain-ring which catches and does not slide along easily is at least troublesome, and hence the ring of Mr. Rees, which we illustrate, may find some favour. It can be drawn round curves and angles as well as along a straight
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Curtains were hung on poles with a limited number of rings, creating a characteristic draped effect between them. Pliny mentioned the fruit of the cucus tree which had a hard kernel that was used to make curtain
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In the 19th century, Mr Rees designed a curtain ring which would not catch upon the curtain rail and so would go smoothly around curves and corners.
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who is a curtain ring salesman. His ability to sell the rings for their alternate uses (e.g., large earrings) is central to the plot of the film.
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of curtain rings with them on their famous expedition to the Pacific coast in 1804, expecting to give them as presents to the
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Such rings may be used as improvisations in other ways. For example, they may be used as a
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The Romans used curtains hanging from poles with a few rings. Pliny's
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Index


curtain
Natural History
cucus tree
Lewis and Clark
gross
natives
wedding ring
marriage ceremony
nocturnal enuresis
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
John Candy
Curtain rod
Drapery hook
Alexandra Croom
ISBN
978-0-7524-4097-2
ISBN
978-0-486-29233-5
citation
help
"The wedding-ring"
Finger-ring Lore
286
Elements of surgery
Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things
Reader's Digest
ISBN
9780762107056
Richard Schickel

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