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She also was handy, hammering nails into walls and using a heat gun to chisel glue off the floor.
The Wonderful Weirdness of Christine McConnell, Queen of Creepy Cookies|Tim Teeman|July 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The 15-part show was due to begin on March 3, with Peaches paring up with her Golden Retriever, Parper.
Peaches Geldof, Daughter of Rock Star Bob Geldof, Dies at 25|Nico Hines, Tom Sykes|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As American president Theodore Roosevelt found, paring down language can go too far.
Will Jargon Be the Death of the English Language?|The Telegraph|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How did the novel evolve away from your original idea of it, and can you say something the editorial process, the paring away.
Susan Minot on Africa, Joseph Kony, and the Limits of Writing About Love|Lea Carpenter|February 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Ben Affleck can be an adequately chisel-jawed buffoon in spandex.
Ben Affleck Isn’t the Worst Thing to Happen to Batman|Sujay Kumar|August 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When I again turned to Lessard he still stood at the end of the desk, industriously paring his fingernails.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
He stood up, crowbar in hand, and inserted the chisel blade of the implement between the edge of the door and the doorcase.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
The round form of many of the latter is especially remarkable: they almost seem to have been cut out with a chisel.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
At length, it was proposed by Dan Tyron to send for the stone cutter, and get him to cut them out of the wall with a chisel.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Jones then went aft to a locker near the stern, whence he returned with a mallet and chisel, and went below.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne

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