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It's been a long time since I've touched this sweater and it's in 4 ply wool.
The trapezoid motion moves squarely with relation to the presser foot to improve fabric feeding, ply pairing and stitch formation.
Whales, sea turtles, crocodiles, giant clams, manta rays, and dugongs also ply the peninsula's waters.
Sometimes gondoliers and sailors in costume were hired to ply the waters of the Grand Canal while musicians played on shore.
At nine the boy still hadn't attended school, and Helene got him a tutor in the quartier, while continuing to ply him with music lessons.
Let competing county buses and private jitneys ply bus stops for passengers.
Scientists believe that now fewer than a hundred of the whales ply the waters near Alaska.
So, what would happen in a free market where anyone could ply their trade in a cab?
Stool in tubular steel with formed seat in ply laminate rebated onto frame, by Pengelly Design.
You are a man who knows how to woo a woman with sweet nothings, ply her with charm.
It is also geographically near the primary shipping lanes for oil tankers that ply the route between Japan and the Middle East.
The lowland rainforests of the Indonesian island of Java are perfect places for an arboreal, leaf-green snake to ply its predatory trade.
This will mean that no two-stroke motorcycles, rickshaws or delivery vans, will be allowed to ply the roads of the metropolis.
The gallery walls are lined with marine ply, angled to give an echo of the list of a Ship under sail.
This has only turned things from bad to worse because the buses have to now ply on a narrow road before reaching the road connecting Town Hall.
York tourism boats can continue to ply their trade, but rowers are banned from the river.
Junior high is a particular challenge socially and prime time for bullies to ply their special brand of meanness.
Others make waiting an art that they ply towards their projects of self-advancement.
This movie vividly reminds us of how the merchants of death ply their trade.
Are you trying to say, Justin, that these blessed people are using trickery, skullduggery, flimflammery, shams, pretence, to ply their trade?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Steamers of all sizes, painted in the national colours of Bohemia, white and red, ply up and down the Vltava.
Lots of whalers has been chased for darin' to ply their trade in these same waters.
I was this time effectively banished, but the ply then taken was ineffaceable.
Accordingly, packet boats were hired to ply between Falmouth and the groyne.
For what bridge shall cross the uncrossable, what ferryman ply for silver pounds on the Great Gulf?
I stood off again, designing to ply to and fro in this bay till I found a conveniency to wood and water.
When the cutters attempted to ply their nippers they fell in their tracks, electrocuted.
I should like you to ply him well with the victuals, my dears, for I should think he must be very hungry.
Then he picked up a rawhide, and began to ply it freely over my shoulders.
Use only the cutlass when you gain the parapet and ply like men.
There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world.
And to ply them with that evil still, to keep up the work of demons, is what brings the others back.
Japanese steamers ply on the Han between Chemulpo and Seoul.
Thus the Priory might well ply a lucrative, if illicit, trade.
Cunningly did he ply his sword before them, but ineffectually.
In the cool and cold months, with Mistaya in a boatyard, Anita and Robert Poss ply their Marblehead walking routes.
Now is the moment to urge on the hounds and ply the javelins.
I would that I could sit and rest, and not have to ply this heavy mallet.
The first thing to do would be to ply the scissors to the red curls.
She turned from the baby to ply Lavis with rapid questions in Polish.
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