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Staples

City in central Minnesota, 45 km/28 mi west of Brainerd; population (1990) 2,800. A dairy processing city, it claims to occupy the geographical centre of the state.
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On the fourth side, which had no window, two strong staples were fixed, through which the person that carried me, when I had a mind to be on horseback, put a leathern belt, and buckled it about his waist.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
Tom he went to the soap-kettle and searched around, and fetched back the iron thing they lift the lid with; so he took it and prized out one of the staples.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally.
The Cask Of Amontillado by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
 
 
 
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