At the back of Weird Stuff store, Williams spots a plain metal box.

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Consider refinishing the walls in sheetrock, diamond plate metal or plain corrugated sheet metal.

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The result is that the pitted tungsten becomes much hotter than a plain sheet of the metal could manage.

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Though her ambition always tolled in the background, she had come to respect him, for his unstudied fairness, his gaiety, his integrity and openness, which was as plain and light and valuable as a metal unknown in her world.

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The objects themselves are plain and they're made out of rusty metal but together, what they do as a pattern, creates a warmth and romance.

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In the modern world, we make most of our pots out of metal and plastic, but we still use plain-old pottery for everyday items, from coffee mugs to dinner plates.

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Metal detectors will be positioned at the end of the gangplank, while sniffer dogs and uniformed and plain clothes policemen will stand guard.

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