With a pastry cutter or a fork, cut the shortening and salt into the flour until the mix is pebbly.

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The ahuacate, a pebbly-skinned, pear-shaped fruit, had been a staple food in Mexico, and Central and South America since 500 B.

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From the hills of nearby Killiney Hill Park, soak up the sweeping views of pebbly Killiney Beach, the Irish Sea and the Wicklow Mountains.

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In the next, he would reject traditional artists' tools in favor of found objects, black tar paper (textured and pebbly and quite iridescent, giving the impression of a midnight sky) or sentimental postcards, eliminating, in a sense, all traces of technique and skill--and even of the artist (some of the "objects" were assembled by carpenters).

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