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  • Warner Home Video has finally gotten with the program and made many films from their chin-deep classic film library available on made-to-order DVDs.

    2009 March : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • Already chin-deep in a conversation I should never have encouraged, I asked, Why do you think your neighbor was robbed?

    Lita Smith-Mines: Giving It All Away Lita Smith-Mines 2011

  • Warner Home Video has finally gotten with the program and made many films from their chin-deep classic film library available on made-to-order DVDs.

    Margaret Sullavan in Your Hands : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • The city is chin-deep in California's trickle-down misery, and last week Richard Riordan, who was L.A. mayor from 1993 to 2001, coauthored with Alexander Rubalcava — an investment adviser — a Wall Street Journal column declaring the city's fiscal crisis "terminal."

    Trickle-Down Misery in L.A. 2010

  • The black-and-white images in the exhibit also show King kneeling at Raj Ghat, Gandhi's memorial in Delhi, and draped chin-deep in marigold garlands upon arriving in the capital.

    King of India Amy Yee 2009

  • My quondam doer had ensconced himself chin-deep among legal trenches, hornworks, and covered ways; but my two protectors shelled him out of his defences, and I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoever my mind listed.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe played best friends who found themselves respectively chin-deep in handsome private detectives and not-exactly-stolen diamonds.

    Buzzine » Bosom Buddies 2008

  • The presence of these matlametlo in the desert in a time of drought was rather a disappointment, for I had been accustomed to suppose that the note was always emitted by them when they were chin-deep in water.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Razka crouched chin-deep in the water as he backed slowly toward the rest of the strike team.

    A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

  • Razka crouched chin-deep in the water as he backed slowly toward the rest of the strike team.

    A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

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