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They called him a pseudo-poet invelveteentrousers who failed to fulfill his constitutional duty to work honestly for the good of the motherland.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cushion of the chair is typically thickvelveteenmaterial filled with cotton fluff.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The boy plays with his other new presents and forgets thevelveteenrabbit for a time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Compared to true velvet,velveteenhas greater body, does not drape as easily, and has less sheen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A man will not be likely to buyvelveteenwhich has two or three sentences of description upon it.
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Import licences are not being issued at present for cotton piece goods other than sateens, velvets and velveteens.
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This material consists of cotton velvet orvelveteenand is used for dresses and other purposes.
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These fabrics are light cotton velveteens, which are largely used as dress material and for cheap upholstery.
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The technique involves pressing avelveteen-covered disk, and then imprinting secondary plates with cells in colonies removed from the original plate by the material.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These presents are modern and mechanical, and snub the old-fashionedvelveteenrabbit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some velveteens are a kind of fustian, having a rib of velvet pile alternating with a plain depression.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Data specifically is a metaphor for a child who seeks to understand what being human means and then, like thevelveteenrabbit, wishes to become.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thevelveteentrade varies with the fashions that control the production of velvet.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some helmets retain the classicvelveteencovered look.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He thinks it looks like his old rabbit, but he does not know that it really is thevelveteenrabbit he once loved.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She thought of using ordinaryvelveteenfrom a yard goods store to serve as a kind of rubber stamp.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tiny fibers of thevelveteenacted like hundreds of tiny inocculating needles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thevelveteenrabbit changes into a real rabbit, and joins the other rabbits in the forest.
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