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Mary looked up quickly from the hank of yarn she was winding into a ball.

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Some people looked at Daniel Jones and saw a nondescript kid with a square haircut, a hank of side-comb running across his forehead in a straight line, and decided he was terminally unremarkable.

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A work from 1935, “Rope and People, I,” combines mediums—an affixed hank of heavy rope is surrounded by painted images of distressed personages.

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Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.

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He ripped an old conch shell off a hank of dead man’s fingers and tossed it aside.

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