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• The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
• When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
• So was I brought up: they tell mee, that in all my youth, I never felt rod but twice, and that very lightly.
• The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
• I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
• ‘And this thicket, so full of a natural art, was in the immediate vicinity, within a few rods, of the dwelling of Madame Deluc, whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras.’
• In one of the villages I saw the next summer a cow tethered by a rope six rods long.
• A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
• The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
• The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
• The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
• He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
• These cylindrical rods fly through the air at incredible speeds and can only be picked up by high-speed cameras.
• During one such broadcast in 1997, the esteemed radio host bellowed, “I got a fax earlier today from MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Arizona and they said what you think are rods are actually insects!”
• He tells of a home video showing a rod flying into the open mouth of a girl singing at a wedding.
• On impulse he moved around to the opposite side of the couple, in the direction which Grace's broad buttocks were pointed, for a full view of the big boned woman's back side. Now Grace wouldn't mind one iota if he rodded her from the rear.
• Russia also supplies 26pc of the EU’s hard coal and is the sole supplier of fuel rods to nuclear power plants in several countries. (Europe will be Russia's hostage over gas supplies for at least another decade,26/08/2014, www.telegraph.co.uk, Szu Ping Chan). La Russie fournit également 26% de l'anthracite de l’UE et est l’unique pourvoyeur de barres de combustible pour les centrales nucléaires dans plusieurs pays.
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