The keys to company chests were also kept by the ruling clique.
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The keys of other chests were put in the safe-keeping of parish notables.
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Attention is given thus to the regulation of meetings, chests and keys, and the selective discharge of information.
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Their shoulders are round and very falling, their chests and hips narrow, their hands and feet very small, their stature from four feet eight inches to five feet one inch.
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Although government complaints about the failure of chests to use their income philanthropically may have been accurate in the 1560s, the crisis of the 1570s instigated higher levels of expenditure.
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The lure of possible housing profit brought funds out from chests or under mattresses, mobilizing the small funds of widows and the elderly besides those of larger lenders and syndicators.
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The rate of import is now 20 chests per month, and it is not at present proposed to vary this amount.
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Think of those androgynous beauties, think of the hairy chests, think of the well-muscled, increasingly ostentatious monsters.
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Many of them wear three or four medals on their chests in honour of the service that they have given the nation.
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I called on all members to stop playing their cards so close to their chests and start putting them on the table.
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If the people who move into the houses are to do other than sit on empty tea chests, they will buy more furniture.
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The flat was in a deplorable state with damp running down the walls, and both children had bad chests.
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There are still 26,000 chests awaiting sale, worth probably from £6,000,000 to £10,000,000, according to the prices we choose to fix.
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In 1909 the export will be limited to 56,800 chests.
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I am not at all sure that in many cases they are not very glad to keep the cards close to their chests.
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Collocationswithchest
chest
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bare chest
For a male dancer, abarechestis not considered in the same light and does not face the same legal restrictions.
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broad chest
It has a massive body and large head, a short neck andbroadchest.
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chest cavity
The body block that was used earlier to elevate thechestcavityis now used to elevate the head.
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