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  • Instead she set our tongues awag with talk of books and Clooneywood.

    Sayonara Snarklings! Back on 8/28 Miss Snark 2005

  • Most importantly-- and this is crucial-- why hasn't some geek made an animated cartoon with the portly Tenet soaring over Shaq, tongue awag, demonstrating what a real slam dunk is?

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • Most importantly-- and this is crucial-- why hasn't some geek made an animated cartoon with the portly Tenet soaring over Shaq, tongue awag, demonstrating what a real slam dunk is?

    Your Right Hand Thief 2004

  • The brouhaha currently broiling in my ex-hometown of Chapel Hill, NC reached a fever pitch this week, as tongues are awag-wag-waggin 'over the summer reading assignment for all incoming UNC freshmen: Approaching the Qu'ran: The Early Revelations.

    8/30/02 Tessa flew to Los 2002

  • The brouhaha currently broiling in my ex-hometown of Chapel Hill, NC reached a fever pitch this week, as tongues are awag-wag-waggin 'over the summer reading assignment for all incoming UNC freshmen: Approaching the Qu'ran: The Early Revelations.

    8/21/02 The brouhaha currently broiling 2002

  • Bear peeked, too, his hindquarters in the air and tail awag.

    html Scottoline, Lisa 2001

  • The reviews were largely silent or indifferent to it, and, apart from the comparatively few notices already cited, it was not mentioned by any important literary periodical until after its republication by Lange, when the Sentimental Journey had set all tongues awag with reference to the late lamented Yorick.

    Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

  • To those who watch careers intelligently and critically, and not merely with mouth agape and ears awag for whatever sounds the winds of credulity bear, there is keen interest in noting how differently this high art is practiced by the fame-seekers -- how well some modest heroes disguise themselves before essaying the trumpet, how timidly some play, how brazenly others.

    Grain of Dust. 1911

  • He put one tiny white paw in her lap; and stood thus, looking up lovingly into her face, tail awag, eyes shining.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Only slightly rebuffed at such chill lack of cordiality, Lad fell in behind him, tail awag, and followed him to the porch.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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  • Adj. oscillating shaking; displaying a waggling motion. See wag, waggle.

    February 15, 2016