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  • Tally shivered as she and Alice filed behind the others into a hall that was even draftier than the corridor.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • Tally shivered as she and Alice filed behind the others into a hall that was even draftier than the corridor.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • CHETRY: The thing that people lose a lot of energy with just trying to heat their house where their windows are draftier and not offering the best protection.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007 2007

  • In old times when the houses were draftier they was troublesome about flickering, candles was; but land! think how comfortable we live now to what we used to!

    A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • Before houses, apartments, mobile homes, castles, igloos, thatched huts, lean-tos, we had caves - a bit draftier, but we got by just the same.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Possibly it’s something to do with response times for poetry generally being shorter than response times for fiction; possibly it’s just that the fiction was draftier than a roofless barn.

    An Interview with Amal El-Mohtar marshallpayne1 2009

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