She felt around in the blocked sink with her rubber gloves, poking into the plughole with the toothbrush, pulling at the ends of the fibres caught in the trap, tugging and coaxing until she began to deliver up out of the drain a nasty mass, a thick rope of hair and soap and matted insulation, in a gulp of bad drain smell.

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They tryin' to write me off, so I got this diamond pendant with a thick-ass rope chain.

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Twelve crew members line up along the teak deck of the 96-foot yacht Mariquita with a thick, braided rope in their hands.

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Others become entangled in fishing rope, a particularly grotesque phenomenon since the thick ropes can rub through a whale's skin and hit bone.

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As for the mussels, miles of thick brown fuzzy rope, equipped with millions of short strands of synthetic fibers woven together provide a spacious abode.

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