Why not own a creature you can stroke and cuddle and tease with a piece of string?

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For months, all we had to go on was the length of that mythical piece of string - until yesterday.

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He was named Achor Achor, and he helped me that afternoon to find an appropriate stick and piece of string.

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While he waits, a chain-smoking captain, Salih Yilmaz, busies himself with a plastic bottle and a piece of string, fishing for calamari to serve in his restaurant.

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Early research involved a colleague lying in a deckchair in the night-time open air with a piece of string to measure the meteors, while he observed electromagnetic signals on a cathode-ray tube in a nearby hut.

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On this back side of the island, the West Maui Mountains exert themselves and push the road around like a piece of string, tight switchbacks yield to long swooping arcs that bring me deep into valleys and then shove me back out toward the coast.

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The final string quartet piece, Todesfuge-Frieze 4, encapsulates the expressive world of the whole work.

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She takes one jade bangle, a light piece clearly designed for a woman quite slim of wrist, and dangles it from a string.

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Benedetti will lead the ensemble as they prepare and perform what is billed as "one of the most difficult and exciting pieces for string orchestra - Bartok's Divertimento - a piece selected to challenge the players and encourage musical excellence".

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