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Sentences with contraption

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  • ...a strange contraption called the General Gordon Gas Bath.
  • “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
  • Rod Taylor sits manfully astride his astonishing brass-and-wood contraption, watching the future flow past him like a sped-up film.
  • A contraption designed to baffle the earnest.
  • While perched prettily in a contraption hanging above the stage.
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