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... exporters in many fields often to the neglect of useful by-products. Treating hides as a by-product of the bovine industries has held Thailand’s own leather industry back. This book explains means by which it can be advanced to both national and commercial benefit. Because of the low quality of local hides in Thailand as in other developing countries, the end users in th...

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...ntegrated Approach for Traceability A Model Hide Cluster and Transaction Chain KU Beef Cooperative KU Slaughterhouse Hide Salting Research Unit Thai Leather Cluster Research Memorandum of Understandings The Value of the Hide Cluster Model 86 87 89 90 91 94 95 96 99 Chapter 4 - Salting and Technical Innovations 101 Preliminary Testing 102 Full Capacity Drum Salting 102...

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... into a cell phone. At last Jack thumbed a button on his cell and slid it into his leather jacket. Looking at Mather, he said, “You look like a mon... ... the spacious interior was strongly oriental, but now it was ultra modern. A black leather sofa and matching love seat were strewn in front of the ... ...truck pulled behind her car. Getting out, Bobby Tower shoved his hands in his brown leather jacket and hurried forward. Laura Kate stepped down the... ...s.” “We can’t make him out something he’s not,” she said, jamming papers into her leather briefcase. “You’re right. He’s not gay, even if he’... ...was called the front room. Bowing politely to the two people sitting in burgundy leather chairs, he secured his campaign hat under his left arm. ... ... faced a fireplace where real logs burned. “Have a seat.” Clay’s butt hitting the leather chair made an impolite sound. “It’s been a day like no o... ...is Chesterfield on top of Johnelle’s mink. “That’d be nice,” he said. He kept his leather porkpie hat, a prop he twisted in anxious hands. Brewste... ...m the glass, she detected his scent, faintly of fine tobacco and expensively tanned leather. “I’m not worried,” he said, his eyes meeting hers. ... ...r may tell me my liver is shot, too. Sit down, Mr. Brewster.” Brewster sat on a leather chair opposite her. “Did Mr. Mather continue to harry yo...

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..., surprising both my mother and the woman whose hair she was cutting. Before I’d even entered the world, I owed my mother the price of her customer’s leather loafers. Thirty years ago, a teacher told my mother to keep an eye on me. I was “frighteningly astute" and “abnormally self-aware” for my age. In other words, I was going places. Twenty-eight years ago, I paid m...

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... vendors of reference. As late as a decade ago, it was still selling in a leather-imitation bound set of 32 volumes. As print encyclopaedias went, i... ...r Alice in Wonderland, just as my memory of it was a golden inscribed red leather edition my family used to read from together. Four years later, i... ...ead throughout the library stacks, requiring the wearing out of much shoe leather to bring them together, now come to rest in one place, on the scre... ... girls: the Romans ravished the Sabines(TM). He became an artist, clad in leather, he started a heavy-metal band called The Garage(TM). It was then ...

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...actors seek extra workers in March, the apparel and needle trades in April and the leather industry in June While some industries show no apparent p...

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...hing of break- ing that vow. The money was contained in a bag of cham- ois leather, of respectable dimensions, which my banker had given me, and Miss ... ...advantages of travel. 53 Henry James She reclined, receptive, on the deep leather cushions, turned her eyes conscientiously to everything I pointed o...

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...measure his passions by the rule of his revenues, not to let them take his leather to make other’s shoes, to trust no one farther then he could see th...

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... the door on the landing, painted in gilt letters on a small square of red leather. Fraisier makes a special point of disputes among the porters, work... ...This per- son rose from a cane-seated armchair, in which he sat on a green leather cushion, assumed an agreeable expression, and brought forward a cha...

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... crammed up his chimney, rather to the detriment of its drawing powers, ‘a leather valise, containing twenty thousand francs, gold coins, and a large ... ...p his mind to produce the treasure to his partner, he returned with an old leathern hat-box, into which he had put the other box, for the better prese...

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... floor hundreds of volumes, all glittering with gold, and reeking with new leather from binders. He asked me to look at his toys. Why should I look at...

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...n expensive piece of equipment. Hard to believe you’re a professional, Frank.” Sarah took a slow, deep breath to calm her nerves. He slipped off his leather jacket. “Oh, come on. I even bought a proper Indiana Jones fedora for the occasion.” Her cheeks grew hot as she stared at the safari shirt stretching across his broad shoulders and strong chest, his sleeves rolled u...

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...ce that looks ten years younger than his true age of twenty five years. His body looks muscular, but is betrayed by the pot belly that hangs over his leather belted blue jeans. A belly that is due to the long hours spent in his forklift truck and the five pints of brown ale that he drinks each day. Nicola is three years older than Stef and appears delicate compared to S...

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...ncidents disturbed those peaceful, joyful first six years of Walter's life. One of these incidents occurred when he noticed other children with small leather bags loosely dangling around their necks. He became fascinated by them and wanted one for himself. Naturally, he also was curious to find out where the children went with satchels around their necks. His mother told h...

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...? It's good to see you again. Come in, sit," he said gesturing toward a large leather chair. "I must admit, I was surprised by your call." "Why's t... ...es that Michael Brand and General Radcliff met. Radcliff sat on a half-torn leather stool and bellied up to the bar. He was dressed in a denim shi... ...reful. Think before you speak he cautioned himself. Slouching onto a burgundy leather chair, "Make it bourbon, Uncle," he said crossing his legs. "...

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...mall foyer at the bottom of the private stairs leading to the flat, feeling cold and used. Exactly four minutes later a motorbike roared up bearing a leather-clad, helmeted Martian who jumped off, locked his machine and panted over. ‘I’m not too late am I? She sounded pretty awesome.’ ‘No, you’re fine. Rather you than me, though.’ Upstairs, water was still splashing ar...

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...ut she has a fine pair of green stockings to cover them. Her shoes—of pink leather—are fastened each with a bunch of yellow ribbons puckered up in the... ...him look as handsome as the cat. Right at the front door, in a high-backed leather-bottomed armed chair, with crooked legs and puppy feet like the tab... ...he object to which the eyes of the old gentlemen are turned who sit in the leather-bottomed arm-chairs. The great clock has seven faces—one in each of... ...attracted universal attention, and every little old gentleman who sat in a leather-bottomed arm-chair turned one of his eyes with a stare of dismay up... ... “One!” said the clock. “V on!” echoed every little old gentleman in every leather- bottomed arm-chair in V ondervotteimittiss. “V on!” said his watch...

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...e thinking that it has all been settled when I hear his high heeled, black leather cowboy boots clapping in the loose dirt behind me. I think to mysel...

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...lves, tiny bits of mirror let into the panels, and a travelling clock in a leather case (the inevitable wedding present), and on the wall above a larg...

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...n silver and gold, in the forms to which precious stones contribute, or in leather, steel, brass, applied to a hundred uses and abuses, were as tumble... ...y’ve mainly known ‘old England’ as a shop for articles in india rubber and leather, in which they’ve dressed themselves as much as possible. Which all... ...h he kept jerking in its neat integument of fine spun black silk and patent leather. It seemed to confess, this member, to consciousness of military di... ...d a square box, of some twenty inches in height, covered with worn looking leather. He placed the box on the counter, pushed back a pair of small hook...

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...ifornian district is a thou sand times worse. It swarms with a mean kind of leather headed mud colored angels — and your nearest white neigh bor i...

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...and nights’ march; and we were obliged to carry our water with us in great leathern bottles, and to encamp all night, just as I have heard they do in ... ...t with so much smoke that they were almost suffocated, we threw in a small leather bag of another kind, which flamed like a candle, and, following it ...

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...t, made of scarlet cloth, with buttons bearing the De Verneuil arms, white leather breeches, top-boots, a striped waistcoat, and a collar and cape of ...

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... the second? COVETOUSNESS. I am Covetousness, begotten of an old churl, in a leather bag: and, might I now obtain my wish, this house, you, and all, ...

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...ng the elegance and newness of his clothes. Godefroid was wearing polished leather boots, yellow gloves, handsome studs, and a very pretty gold chain ... ...e her sheets. Those cords are fastened to pulleys; by slipping a square of leather beneath her and drawing it up by the four corners with these pulley... ...dbare. A worn-out green carpet was on the floor. A large armchair of black leather, intended for clients, stood before the window, which was draped wi...

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...his face, and he saw the momentary gleam of starlight on a skin like oiled leather. His water-bottle was knocked off his little table with a smash. Th... ...e in the world. It had sharp, short ears, and soft fur, and its wings were leathery. Its teeth were little but devilish sharp, and its jaw could not h... ...n the air as the spokes of the great driving wheels came round, a note the leather straps made as they ran tighter and looser, and a fretful tumult fr... ...ire. He would go and stand close to the colossus, and look up at the great leather band running overhead. There was a black patch on the band 72 The ... ...rs. Azuma-zi suddenly walked across the centre of the shed above which the leather bands were 74 The Country of the Blind running, and went into the ... ...e ground. The skin had a glistening texture, unpleasant to see, like shiny leather. The downward bend of the tentacle-surrounded mouth, the cu- rious ... ...towards it to pick it up, under the impression that it was some such small leather object as a purse. Then he saw that it was the purple top of a fung... ...I don’t think any of them dreamt of the man inside. I was just a wonderful leathery great joss that had come up with luck out of the water. But the fa... ... criticism of the encounter she noted that Fanny had a slightly “touristy” leather strap, and that Helen had succumbed to a serge jacket with side poc...

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...s true colours, and not our selues be seene? 950 Poin. Put on two Leather Ierkins, and Aprons, and 951 waite vpon him at his Table, like...

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...ail, their faces close shaven, except two moustaches, and dressed in tight leather garments, with swords at their wide belts. Some slept, some feasted... ...o attack upon the walls. The warriors were to be seen walking about in the leathern suits they wore un- der their armor; or if a party was to be seen ...

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... room where he had spent every evening of his boyhood, with the same green leather arm-chair, in the very place where his grandfather used to sit. Mar... ... encamp- ment by the fire, though the round table was large, and the green leather sofa and arm chair were cumbrous. However, old Sir Guy’s arm-chair ...

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...ened a door belonging to the office. In the middle of the yard lay a small leather purse with two keys hanging at it, with money in it, but nobody wou...

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...e Ship ? Yes, says he, I’ll bring some, and accordingly he brought a great Leather Pouch which held about a Pound and half of Powder, or rather more; ...

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...commander of the noble ship. It was Tatua, the Chief of the Nose-rings. II LEATHERLEGS AND T OM COXSWAIN did not accompany Tatua when he went to the P... ...hen the Prince of Wales reviewed us, and when we wore French gray jackets, leathers, red morocco boots, crimson pelisses, brass helmets with leopard-s... ...erapurl butns, engraved with coaches & osses, and sport- ing subjix,) high leather gayters, and marocky shooting shoes, was the simple hellymence of m... ...d wings, orna- mented with about 3,000 sugar-loaf buttons, rhubarb-colored leather inexpressibles (tights), and red morocco boots with silver spurs an... ...alled for slim symmetry. His feet were covered with peaked buskins of buff leather, and a belt round his slender waist, of the same mate- rial, held h... ... and walloping and floundering in the ditch underneath. One of the stirrup-leathers had caught in a stake, and the horse couldn’t get away: and neithe...

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...t over a white waistcoat so long that it covered his rotund stomach, white leather breeches tightly fitting the fat thighs of his short legs, and Hess... ...ht of the dawn, Rostov and Ilyin both glanced under the wet and glistening leather hood of the doctor’s cart, from under the apron of which his feet w...

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...iploma in a frame hung on the chimneypiece; an easy chair covered in black leather on the hearth; a neat stool and bench, with vice, tools, and a mort... ...di- ary on it, and a chair. Next the writing table, towards the door, is a leather covered sofa. The opposite wall, close on your right, is occupied m...

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...hed wings, were laid, as it were, on their keels by the wind. Finally, the leather apron which covered us began to flutter about and to beat against t...

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...that aged face it seemed a blasphemy. Then he took out of his bosom a long leather purse, and emptying its contents on the settle, began to count and ...

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...es to life, which are forced and material, as a shoe must still consist of leather, but by its immeasurable difference from life, which is designed an...

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...ry member to keep always in good order, and fit for use, a certain number of leather buckets, with strong bags and baskets (for pack ing and transpor... ...tore, becomes manager of Keimer’s printing house. 1727 Founds the Junto, or “Leathern Apron” Club. 1728 With Hugh Meredith, opens a printing office. 1...

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...t for the use of the duke’s scribes. And she it was who bound in vermilion leather the great manuscript of Charles’s own poems, which was presented to...