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Examples
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‘He’s got a bad reputation with women — great in the sack, but an ice-man out of it.
Mistress for a Weekend Napier, Susan 2006
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‘He’s got a bad reputation with women — great in the sack, but an ice-man out of it.
Mistress For A Weekend Napier, Susan 2006
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Then again she comes to the curb to call the ice-man, fish-man, and stands shy, uncorseted, tucking in stray ends of hair, and I compare her to a fallen leaf.
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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#8, I remember reading a book about Oetzi, the ice-man mentioned in the original article.
Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier « Climate Audit 2005
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Kelly's stoic style brings back memories of the Vikings 'ice-man coach, Bud Grant of the football Vikings.
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Gellan's plan was a good one, but then Jonat would expect little else from such an ice-man.
Waylander Gemmell, David 1986
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Silver enough she had had for Casimir the ice-man and for the paper boy who collected each Saturday.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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The undertaker, the dentist, the ice-man, the retail shoe man are under the ban.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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She made the ice-man grind coffee for her for a week because he once forgot to come up and put the ice into the refrigerator.
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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To send her to church and forage in our own ice-box was out of the question, for she knows to a dot how much there is of everything, and I cannot take an olive that she does not miss it and come and ask me if I took it, to avert suspicion from the ice-man.
At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell
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