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She has already been fishing while in her moma's belly at 7.5 months we went walleye fishing and moma caught a few dandy's!
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She has already been fishing while in her moma's belly at 7.5 months we went walleye fishing and moma caught a few dandy's!
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Bespoke Stripe, their 2003 collaboration with clothing designer Paul Smith, offered a dandy's take on the pinstripe.
Highly Suitable Fabric Stephen Treffinger 2011
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England have changed their kit so frequently in the recent past that it barely makes the news when the latest version is unveiled with a barrage of baffling pronouncements about technological improvements designed to keep its wearers smelling like a dandy's nosegay.
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The dandy's little joke lay in suggesting that they should have called themselves Eumenides ( "the good-natured ones"), the name ironically applied by the Greeks to the Furies.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Robert Townsend Jr., for example, in a speech to the Convention of Mechanics, Farmers and Workingmen, called for a society where "a dirty shirt acquired by toil" was "held more honorable than the dandy's ruffle."
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Although these women's attempt to use materiality to translate visual expression into a more powerful discourse was more innovative in its ends than the dandy's, the means was too aligned with femininity and consumption to be truly freeing.
Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006
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For those of you that get juiced by stats, Candace Sepulis posted these dandy's on her MySpace along with a very good letter of outrage to the Dudes of the Environment.
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Adam guessed the thugs were in the dandy's employ.
One Red Rose Garwood, Julie 1997
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The dandy's little joke lay in suggesting that they should have called themselves Eumenides ( "the good-natured ones"), the name ironically applied by the Greeks to the Furies.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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