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He pulled away, and steam poured from his nostrils as he shook his head with curled-up lips.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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Tall, potbellied, he has a curled-up Pancho Villa mustache and reeds of graying hair falling away from the top of his shiny head.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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I also flattened out the curled-up leaves and painted it with chocolate brown and gold spray paint.
Archive 2009-09-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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And his was genuine surprise, on entering the steward's room, to behold Michael just rousing from his curled-up sleep on the floor.
CHAPTER X 2010
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I also flattened out the curled-up leaves and painted it with chocolate brown and gold spray paint.
What the hell? (and Solar Chandeliers) The Curious Holts 2009
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On Heargadievvá Street women pass by on foot sleds, their red Sámi bonnets bobbing up and down in the wind, fur boots with curled-up toes, pushing and sliding their sleds.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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On Heargadievvá Street women pass by on foot sleds, their red Sámi bonnets bobbing up and down in the wind, fur boots with curled-up toes, pushing and sliding their sleds.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The circle parts and Donna kneels beside the curled-up bones.
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Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).
The Shape of Things Lance Esplund 2011
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He pulled away, and steam poured from his nostrils as he shook his head with curled-up lips.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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