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What most intrigues many people about the cave, however, is not the artwork but a set of markings at once more human and more mysterious: the bare footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old torch-bearing boy left in the mud of a back chamber some 26,000 years ago—and, alongside one of them, the paw print of his traveling companion, variously identified as a wolf or a large dog.
From the Cave to the Kennel Mark Derr 2011
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They would haul the principal out of his office at the front of a torch-bearing mob and string him up right there on the school playground shouting: "hey-ho, the peanut lover has to go!"
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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Rochester Telephone tried that in the 1970s and the torch-bearing throngs nearly burned down their headquarters.
TWC to Customers: You Don’t Want Tiers, You Don’t Get Super-fast Broadband 2009
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After years of significant but stuttering accomplishment on a paltry budget, IHPC, the single, multi-disciplinary, collaborative, torch-bearing lobbyist for integrative care in Washington, D.C., appeared finally to be ready to take a seat at the right tables.
John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012
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They would haul the principal out of his office at the front of a torch-bearing mob and string him up right there on the school playground shouting: "hey-ho, the peanut lover has to go!"
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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They would haul the principal out of his office at the front of a torch-bearing mob and string him up right there on the school playground shouting: "hey-ho, the peanut lover has to go!"
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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Though I would imagine the torch-bearing hireling would have a life expectancy measured in minutes …
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After years of significant but stuttering accomplishment on a paltry budget, IHPC, the single, multi-disciplinary, collaborative, torch-bearing lobbyist for integrative care in Washington, D.C., appeared finally to be ready to take a seat at the right tables.
John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012
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They would haul the principal out of his office at the front of a torch-bearing mob and string him up right there on the school playground shouting: "hey-ho, the peanut lover has to go!"
Daniel P. Malito: The Dangers Of 'Nerfing' The World For Our Kids Daniel P. Malito 2011
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What would have been his torch-bearing hand was wrapped in dishtowels.
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