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columns

/ˈkɑləmz/ noun B1
  1. pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately.
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So now, you see, we begin to visualize a large book printed in double columns which are each of a considerable length, since one of the words is numbered in the document as the two hundred and ninety-third.
The Valley of Fear, p. 6 · C1
“So we have contracted our field of search to a large book, printed in double columns and in common use.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 7 · C1
We know that you were pressed for money; that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held; and that you entered into a correspondence with Oberstein, who answered your letters through the advertisement columns of the Daily Telegraph.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 36 · B2
I should have thought, sir, that your obvious way was to advertise in the agony columns of the papers."
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 76 · B2

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