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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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wood
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The first of these was wood engraving , done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A figure moved slowly through the uncertain light towards him, as faceless and monumental as Death in an old engraving .
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A plethora of books of topographical views at home and abroad used steel engravings, many of them of poor quality.
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Crocker's engraving was published on l June 1802; five days later, aged 52, Charles the Cheesemonger died.
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He ignored both the display cases and the safe which was concealed behind a framed eighteenth-century engraving of the City of London.
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I came one day on a folder full of tinted engravings.
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Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms.
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Queequeg sees engravings on the coin which remind him of the tattoos on his body.
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The first of these was wood engraving , done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife.