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An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome
Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed.
Kills the bad ones and the sad ones. Tightens to fit, so one size fits.
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
A Chinese, Indian and a Swiss were going to a party. Who is most likely to bring a plus one?