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There were a few wind wheels irrigating a few gardens, scrawny homes with scrawnier fruit shrubs around them
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He pulled at the tailgate, screwing up his scrawny, twitching features, and slowly
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He pulled at the tailgate, screwing up his scrawny, twitching features, and slowly but surely, emitting mineral groans and metallic shrieks, the metal and glass door began to inch upwards until, with the tailgate at seventy-five degrees, the little man was able to clamber onto the space made by the flattened seats, cross his legs, and utter a loud harrumph
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He caught sight of the top of it over the brush, it was as far above the ground as a human's head and it was tawny yellow
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For the last few weeks he had shut out the sounds of life, preferring the solitude of personal contemplation to the banality of human contact, but here in the soft tawny light of the lounge bar at the Red Lion those trivial voices broke through on the back of an ethereal sub tone that slowly built up throughout the evening until, towards closing time, Ken realised that he was listening to the same song being played over and over again on the jukebox
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black nose all the way to the end of his scrawny grey tail
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as his four tired and scrawny legs could muster
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Compared to them she was as shapely as the average young tree trunk, perched up on long saplings, with long scrawny arms and insect bites for tits
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tawny light of the lounge bar at the Red Lion those trivial voices
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The natives do not possess the technology to record sound and video from the back of a Tawny Springkette and could not have made that documentary, but they know those numbers and adjust for them in their calculations
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Though her body was thinned from her long years of slumber, Rafe could tell there was a definite toughness to every bit of her scrawny muscles
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I never understood why you bothered with a scrawny little wimp like me at all
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"I find that hard to believe," and painful, the scrounge he tried to save was female, a wasted, scrawny, scabby, blond cackler
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Her body was attractive and sturdy, her skin a nice dusky-tawny color in the lantern light
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‘They’re a fairly scrawny bunch I grant you,’ he said,
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not all is lost to us,” Anon said, looking directly at the misshapen Elder Jakkar, and then the scrawny, little scrapper Kendal
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Before them had stood an attractive young man in all his naked glory; his once scrawny thighs now muscular and well shaped, his chest now broad and covered with hair
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What if they end up in a sorry state, looking like living skeletons? When the time comes for an audience before the king in due course I want them to look healthy and strong – not thin, sickly or scrawny; otherwise the king might feed me to the lions! ”
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He spurred the tawny animal to the north
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Beside him the tawny-headed recruit, a man even younger still, excitedly turned to him
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The brawny women’s presence was a little disconcerting, but was tolerated by all present as the queen’s safety came first
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Lifting a scrawny hand to touch his son’s shoulder, he barely had the strength to complete the action and he felt the energy drain from him
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Golden Frog was sporting a frog-like head but had a scrawny lion-cub body
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However, his body was all scrawny feline
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Nowhere in those memories could I place Vanessa or the scrawny little thing she had called Marley
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Other than Joseph and me, the only movement seemed to be insects as they skittered across the tawny earth to vanish into small patches of dried grass
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Tawny-colored mountains in the distance caught my eye
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A scrawny piebald dog ran across the village street it stopped and barked at us then barred its teeth growling whilst strings of spittle foamed at its mouth we kept it covered as it turned and ran off
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It's scrawny throat throbbing
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falling out of its wings in places, and its long, scrawny neck brought a head to look at him with a pair
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Skinny and scrawny is now chubby and flabby but still as naked as the day we brought him home
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I looked down to see a gray cat with a raised, crooked tail, Smoky, a very scrawny, bedraggled Smoky, still rubbing against my legs
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One icy morning, John, the garbage collector, found a scrawny kitten nearly frozen to death between a cardboard box and a trashcan
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It was a scrawny thing,
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He took the scrawny chicken in his right hand, slid it under the
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Two of the brawny men headed for Amaranthe, two for Books
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Failing to find one, he tutted in frustration, listening instead to the sounds of the forest– the rustling leaves, the shrill 'ke-wick' of a tawny owl, the steady tap of a wood boring beetle searching for food
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As he tore at the flesh of the scrawny squab he'd found under a nearby tree, he brooded on his misfortune
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Interestingly towards the west of Owamboland called the Kaokoveldt the mountainous terrain prevented the armoured vehicles from operating so they conducted most of their operations on foot and got to be exceedingly fit and scrawny
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My ―favorite‖ staple is the one where a cloddish, brawny type is properly set down and summarily vanquished with relative ease by an unassuming ―cutie‖ ready, willing and able of taking on all comers who step out of line
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"I'll wring his scrawny
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"Oy missis!" he called out after her, "Is it yer what owns that scrawny looking goat?"
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While she groomed her thick tawny fur, she was ever-alert, ever-listening, smelling the wood-smoke and other flavours on the wind
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Mike knew many men like that, South Boston, Irish longshoremen and for Mike they filled out the picture of William: surely, his father would be lyrical and of course, brawny; he would be a man after a day’s work to hoist a cold beer with his mates in a neighborhood tavern
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Six-foot, brawny Dave was engaged to a girl on shore, with whom he was making big plans for a round-the-world sail
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stand-up ears and beautiful tawny coat, he stood panting; look-
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gently stroked his tawny shoulder
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In a minute she had pulled the stockings over her scrawny little legs and slipped Faith's shoes over her thick little ankles
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The boat-driver was a hopelessly scrawny man with a thin mustache and bulging eyes
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scrawny cat by his side, neither in an apparent state of good
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A scrawny man much older than him waited at the foot
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“It was Akito wasn't it, I'm going to wring his scrawny little-”
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” It was the deep voice of the big man, who stood with his brawny arms crossed over his chest
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That scrawny little runt- is what they used to call me
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Men, brave men, golden men inside with tawny lion’s manes and true hearts, though outside they were common and plain
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Your scrawny little son has finally grown into a man
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the island, I wasn’t going to kill this scrawny, dying bird
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” Dawes waved a scrawny arm in the air
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Craning his scrawny chicken neck, Edwin reached up and clamped his beak around Zach’s nose
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The first look of horror in this story was the scrawny valet’s when he saw me pull up in a hearse
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His arms and legs were scrawny
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Looking at this scrawny little guy with his greasy hair, his shoulder-padded
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magician?” He puffed up his scrawny chest
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When pressed for an opinion he reckoned I got the job because the other applicants had been scrawny little runts, and as actors with my physical type were as rare as hens’ teeth, I was a shoe-in
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The Leader of the newly founded Guild of Assassins took Ankharet’s pale hand in his tawny one
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Six hours convinced me hitch hiking was not an option so I endured third class, wooden train seats, surrounded by fat mothers shouting “Jose, Maria, aqui!” as they peeled boiled eggs, tore open bread rolls and gossiped while their scrawny, wrinkled husbands drank wine from basket-covered bottles and smoked foul-smelling cigarettes
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After an initial pep talk by the camp’s head teacher, a scrawny Scottish fellow reeking of tobacco sidled up and hissed, “Macbeth?”
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Scrawny, angular, a large mouth and looked about forty
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Maybe after a couple of years someone would ask what had happened to the scrawny bitch who used to manage MacFife"s girls, but no one would miss her
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“What’s that?” she implores looking more helpless than a scrawny baby does on one of those feed-the-starving-children-who’s-parents-are-too-stupid-to programs
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‘I hope your grandmother isn’t disappointed when she sees I’m just a scrawny old man with no special talent
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In the morning she’d tear up her silly confession, renounce revenge, and try to make it up with Stephen—she should be able to get him away from the clutches of that scrawny old woman she’d seen him with
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Men and women alike were almost transparently pale and either flabby and obese, or scrawny with dry, sickly skin
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Occasionally a scrawny, strange looking animal creeps past—lizards with malformed heads, snakes with odd growths on their bodies, insects that are slow and clumsy
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‘If you read the briefings instead of screwing every male Vassal you can lay your scrawny claws on, you’d know that as part of the experiment to create super inventive scientists we decided to waive the mind-bending in case that was affecting imagination and creativity
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There was nothing here when we arrived, just a stony hillside with a scattering of scrawny eucalypts
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piercing as an eagle' s, tawny and brilliant with golden lights
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He wanted to strangle the scrawny, screaming little creep
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” Replied the Padre placing his hands on the Weasel’s scrawny shoulders
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But in the reign of Thugra Khotan, the last magician of Kuthchemes, gray-eyed, tawny-haired barbarians in wolfskins and scale-mail had ridden from the north into the rich uplands to carve out the kingdom of Koth with their iron swords
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'Bend to it, dogs!' roared Tito with a passionate gesture of his brawny fist
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In the glutted slave markets of Aghrapur, Sultanapur, Khawarizm, Shahpur and Khorusun, women were sold for three small silver coins—blond Brythunians, tawny Stygians, dark-haired Zamorians, ebon Kushites, olive-skinned Shemites
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He sprang, knocked the governor sprawling with a savage blow of his knife-hilt, swept up the astounded Devi in one brawny arm and leaped for the window
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The leap through the window to the parapet, the mad race across battlements and roofs when the fear of falling froze her, the reckless descent of a rope bound to a merlon—he went down almost at a run, his captive folded limply over his brawny shoulder—all this was a befuddled tangle in the Devi's mind
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Brawny arms swung the dead man over the rail, and a dozen fins cut the water as he sank
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She distinctly heard the buccaneer grunt as he struck, and saw the victim's tawny eyes roll up in sudden agony; blood and entrails gushed out over the driven blade
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He was a young man of medium height, with an open countenance and a mop of tousled tawny hair unconfined by cap or helmet
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He blundered into the Cimmerian as the latter stopped dead, and rebounded from his brawny shoulders as though from an iron statue
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In the brief instant that was allowed him he realized with a surge of panic the strength of his attacker, against which his own brawny thews were helpless
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Argos was at peace; laden ox-wains rumbled along the road, and men with bare, brown, brawny arms toiled in orchards and fields that smiled away under the branches of the roadside trees
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Fifteen hundred years in the north country have made them a tall, tawny-haired, grey-eyed race, vigorous and warlike, and already exhibiting a well-defined artistry and poetism of nature
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Tribes of tawnyured Hyborians have moved southward and westward, conquering and destroying many of the small unclassified clans
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The tawny-haired invaders have encountered the Picts, driving them into the barren lands of the west
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The dominant of Hyborians are no longer uniformly tawny-haired and grey-eyed
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By the time Pedro looked out of the shack door, with the Indian peeking over his shoulder, there was nothing to see but a scrawny mother dog and her pups lying under a shrub and Chica staring at them from a distance, her eyes back to normal
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about,” she said sliding her scrawny wet body between Harold and
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her scrawny little white legs
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Suddenly the cabin door flew open and a small, scrawny figure sprinted to the water‘s edge and jumped into the grounded pirogue, gesturing and voicing unintelligible sounds
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Then after he is done with you, I’m going to pluck those big weird eyes out and tear your fuckin’ weird-looking head off that scrawny ass body of yours,” I screamed at him
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In shifter form he was a cougar, one of the most dangerous of the North American cat species and related to the jaguar: large, lethal, and beautiful even as his tawny chest sprouted crimson
