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In buckles or lace I help set the pace. The farther you go the thinner I grow.
I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
I am flora, not fauna. I am foliage, not trees. I am shrubbery, not grass. What am I?
I am a chair that can move. What am I?
What comes in many different sizes but is always only 1 foot long?
It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?