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Examples
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"This was the first time I had taken a weather ear-ring, and I felt not a little proud to sit astride of the weather yard-arm, past the ear-ring, and sing out 'Haul out to leeward!'"
A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010
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I was met outside the flat by a lad in his twenties with a very shiny ear-ring who shook my hand with far too much confidence.
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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They're coming to get Bill Maher and the other liberal Hollywood Jews, the gays, the abortionists, the ear-ring boys, the blacks, the foreigners....
"Indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt." Ann Althouse 2008
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In the frantic, hyper-competitive, success-obsessed, capitalist-Communist amalgam that is New China, even the trendiest, ear-ring sporting, "Westernized" youth is under tremendous pressure.
Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Youth and Their Internet: Deep Love 2008
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Kfed wears ear-ring, smoke, behave like a pimp, is that a role model father?
Britney Spears Violates Drug Tests Because ‘She’s A Pop Star’ 2007
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When I got my hair cut short it took me a while to wear any kind of dangling ear-ring but now I like it.
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Over lunch Trav made an outburst about a Polish gentleman who was "6ft4, bald, with an ear-ring".
Mr Clean Could Mean Right Said Fred Comeback Kerron Cross 2006
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Over lunch Trav made an outburst about a Polish gentleman who was "6ft4, bald, with an ear-ring".
Archive 2006-06-01 Kerron Cross 2006
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Red robe, red nails, red lips, red eye of Siva painted above my own black kohled eyes, fake-gold headdress hung with costume pearls, my fingers dripped gaudy rings from the cheap jewelry sellers of Kinari Bazaar, a light chain of real gold ran from my nose stud to my ear-ring; I was once again Kumari Devi.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Upon the floor were found four Napoleons, an ear-ring of topaz, three large silver spoons, three smaller of metal d'Alger, and two bags, containing nearly four thousand francs in gold.
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