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  • This is more than you can say for the book itself though, being one of those cheesy overwide size for some reason trade paperbacks with flimsy cardboard covers that warp and damage in five seconds, not to mention the cheap paper.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Gods and Pawns - Kage Baker Blue Tyson 2008

  • He floored out of the space, gunned through the stop sign, and took the turn overwide.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • He floored out of the space, gunned through the stop sign, and took the turn overwide.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • He floored out of the space, gunned through the stop sign, and took the turn overwide.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • He take skiff come first dagrene day overwide tumbler, rough and dark, till when bow of the shower show of the bower with three shirts and a wind, pagoda permettant, crookolevante, the bruce, the coriolano and the ignacio.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Anthony, emitting two slender strings of smoke from nostrils overwide.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Grady held her hand loosely, his profile to the overwide window of the limo, the passing scenery distorted in the convex lenses of his wire-rims.

    html Scottoline, Lisa 2001

  • So now André Marty sat working over his map at the bare table with the raw light on the unshaded electric light bulb over his head, the overwide beret pulled forward to shade his eyes, referring to the mimeographed copy of the orders for the attack and slowly and laboriously working them out on the map as a young officer might work a problem at a staff college.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • Our conclusions will thus be coextensive with our knowledge, rather than with our wishes, incomplete and overwide rather than illogical.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • But for all answer the chieftain and his brake out a-laughing; and then the chieftain gat his spear by the midmost, and made as if he would cast at them; but the Flood there was overwide for spear-shot.

    The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

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