A three-cornered race. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A three-cornered hat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a three-cornered hat. ,The candidates were deadlocked in a three-cornered tie. From Dictionary.com.
The three-cornered tear may be darned in two ways. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
And on the ground lay the soldierly three-cornered hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
They sat on triangular chairs at a three-cornered table. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
Bring me that three-cornered, blue bottle from the cupboard, Susie. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
And how were the contents of this little three-cornered bag to restore. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
If that means talking like a Tea Partier, then bring on the three-cornered hat. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Robespierre of the Hedge-Fund Revolution] Reference
Raymond's, with a tiny, three-cornered card, fastened to a rose-bud, and reading. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
A bias or diagonal cut and a three-cornered tear are the most difficult to repair. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Deep down in a buried Etruscan tomb there lay a little three-cornered piece of pottery. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
This one was like a three-cornered platform of wood, with a long, curved, strong rake under it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
In a head-to-head match-up, three-cornered hat was crushed by forty-pound robe of velvet and fur. From Wordnik.com. [David Parker: Political Memo: How to Defeat the Tea Party] Reference
"That one has missed," thought I, standing by in a silent part of this three-cornered convention. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Molly looked from the flat parcels to the three-cornered ones and could not decide which to choose. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Using an old three-cornered French file, I chipped off the point and adjusted the handle carefully. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
"Dull, but safe," replied the Mole, who never took the least notice of the three-cornered Chip's insults. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
After all Billy Button was the only one to suffer, and he had a fine big three-cornered hole in his coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
I wish I could take that look of suffering from her little pinched, three-cornered face for just one hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
The fox being now fairly well shaped, sew it up with a three-cornered skin (or glover's) needle and string. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Mr. Irving next tries the three-cornered stools which are placed around the table, but prefers square ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Before five minutes were gone, the flimsy wooden screen had been transformed into a neat three-cornered hole. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
It is true it was in a three-cornered fight, and by a majority of twenty-four he represents minority of electors. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
An old three-cornered file is ground on each side till the file marks disappear, and sharp edges are produced (Fig. 53). From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Put back the beans and add the tomato sauce, heat for a couple of minutes, and serve with three-cornered pieces of toast. From Wordnik.com. [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference
It was a great, three-cornered piece of sharp steel, with long handles coming up from it, so that a man could hold it in place. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
"Then if ye'll bid landlord have Ned Blossom sent on t 'Ecclesthorpe when he be sober, I'll get t' three-cornered team hitched up.". From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
It was late that afternoon when a three-cornered interview took place in a down-town office somewhat outside the customary espionage of. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
He looked around for Alexander, but the entrepreneur was the center of a three-cornered argument, hemmed in by Douglas, Henry, and Anne. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
The three-cornered scrap of garden by the elm tree, with a border of stones, and a neat trodden path down the middle, belonged to little. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
"Go to Ciudad Real, if not too late," said a man, wrapped in a cloak, and wearing a small three-cornered hat, who suddenly stepped from behind. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
"Sit by me," she whispered to Naomi, breaking off a neat three-cornered piece of barley cake which was to serve Naomi as knife and fork and spoon. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
Arimaspians and Ethiopians, until at last thou shalt come to the three-cornered land where the mighty Nile goes out by its many arms into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
After a little they came suddenly to a place where the passage was divided in two by a big three-cornered boulder which seemed to rise from the midst of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
"Did I ever tell you about Sally Ann's experience?" she said, as she laid two three-cornered pieces together and began to sew with her slender, nervous old fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
The three-cornered cupboard, in one corner of the room, was of cherry, with small diamond-shaped windows in front, showing within rare old sets of china and cut glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at tea-party events dressed in his trademark three-cornered hat and Revolutionary garb. From Wordnik.com. [Black Helicopters Over Nashville] Reference
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