Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
My memory of the fight with Assef is amazingly vivid in stretches: I remember Assef turning on the music before slipping on his brass knuckles.
(Parse)
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(: :)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Schlomo whips out his trusty brass knuckles and starts cracking open German skulls till he’s mortally wounded.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NNP Schlomo))
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Also featured on “The Declaration” is the Nelly collaboration “Body on Me”, which is the third single from his 2008 album “Brass Knuckles”.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Regal then hit Edge with a series of brutal kicks and, when the referee turned around, he took out his brass knuckles.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Mostly, I remember this: His brass knuckles flashing in the afternoon light; how cold they felt with the first few blows and how quickly they warmed with my blood.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Faith Hill celebrates Christmas a little early, Nelly busts out his brass knuckles, and Punchline are only saying YES.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (NP (NN Faith) (NNP Hill))
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He’s also wearing black fingerless gloves, but Michaela knows she can *n’t nitpick about that: if he’s going to use his brass knuckles, he needs the gloves to protect his knuckles from being scraped raw.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
erik lent mom his brass knuckles, and rami volunteered to be a punching bag, when we ran into each other in front of chili rojo in beautiful downtown puerto viejo :
(Parse)
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(: :)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He was twirling his brass knuckles.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP He))
(VP (AUX was)
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(NP (PRP$ his) (NN brass) (NNS knuckles))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Nelly busts out his Brass Knuckles, Perhapst urge us to add the letter T to the end of all our words, and the Walkmen only think about You and Me.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (S (NP (NNP Nelly))
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot out Assef’s left eye with his slingshot.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (NP (PRP He))
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(PP (IN with)
(NP (PRP$ his) (NN slingshot))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He prepares to attack Amir with his brass knuckles, but Hassan bravely stands up to him, threatening to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Henry: not to the Cure. # 22:06 Some guy looked at me and Hector is polishing his brass knuckles.
(Parse)
(S1 (FRAG (NP (NNP Henry)) (: :) (RB not)
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(. .)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Faith Hill celebrates Christmas a little early, Nelly busts out his brass knuckles, and Punchline are only saying YES.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (NP (NN Faith) (NNP Hill))
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(, ,)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe’s brass knuckles and straight razor can *n’t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
As Buddy puts on his brass knuckles to deliver the coup de grace, Vincent knocks the weapon down before he’s dropped by a gut punch.
(Parse)
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(NP (DT a) (NN gut) (NN punch)))))
(. .)))
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