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On the plane he kept the bound-up pages in his inside jacket pocket along with his wallet and passport.
Two Poets Carol Reid 2011
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Each set of six exercises takes your body through all planes of motion, meaning that even if you did them without warm-up and cool-down not recommended your body feels remarkably as if you've stretched, rather than feeling bound-up.
TacFit Commando Review Steven Barnes 2010
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When huge shocks transform the landscape, structures and institutions crumble, releasing tremendous amounts of bound-up energy and resources for renewal and reorganization.
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All this, of course, means that the exercise of authority in Christ's Church is always bound-up with letting-go, with making room for God to be God, for God's outpouring to come through.
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See here! shewing her bound-up arm to me what they would have done!
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Looking down, he saw a bundle of bound-up cloth beside Joanna's backpack; a corner had pulled aside to show bright metal within.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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She felt a pounding pain inside her skull, and she pressed her hands against her bound-up hair.
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
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A lack of freedom is indicated in the voice, as in other kinds of mechanism by some sign of friction -- by a harsh tone from a constrained throat; by a nasal or a muffled tone, from some obstruction in the nasal passages of the head, either because of abnormal physical conditions, or because of an unnatural direction of the breath, mainly due probably to speaking with a closed mouth; by a bound-up, heavy,
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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The man at the ferry-boat gave us an extra binding up, and by going cautiously we got home, though we feared every moment would be our last, as regards driving, as the bound-up parts creaked most ominously all the way, and we fully expected at every rough bit to go in half.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall
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They climbed slowly, the man of crutches and the man with the bound-up head.
The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey
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