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Hanging from the back of the chair, the cups of her brassiere pointed straight out into the room like headlights.
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Hanging from the dome's ceiling is a remnant from the Twins 'history: a banner that features depictions of Kirby Puckett, Kent Hrbek, Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva.
Take Me In to the Ballgame Mike Sielski 2010
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Hanging is too good for them, the punishment is over too quick, nothing these thugs say can ever justify the fact they took the life (after a period of ‘terroring’) of anothe person
Curious Men With Dangerous Ideas (again) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Hanging is almost instantaneous, and any pain is gone before the felon realizes it is there.
Stromata Blog: 2006
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Hanging is almost instantaneous, and any pain is gone before the felon realizes it is there.
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Hanging from the hook on the back of the door are several changes of underwear.
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Hanging is a barbarous, inefficient way of killing anybody, and at least one fact about itquite widely known, I believeis so obscene as to be almost unprintable.
As I Please 1946
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Hanging from the ceiling there was a heavy glass chandelier on which the dust was so thick that it was like fur.
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Hanging from the cantle strings was a wild turkey she had shot.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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The department is urging residents to participate in National Hanging Out Day on Sunday by using a clothesline or drying rack instead of their electric clothes dryers.
WCAX - Local News 2009
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