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  • If they made fifty-pound packs, it meant a daily walk of sixteen miles loaded and of fifteen miles light -- "Because we don't back-trip the last time," Kit explained the pleasant discovery; eighty-pound packs meant nineteen miles travel each day; and hundred-pound packs meant only fifteen miles.

    THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

  • Merlinevenconsoled the heart of an eighty-pound border collie who was still mourning her last cat.

    A Life Measured in Books and Cats 2010

  • He is aware that there are two eighty-pound batteries in the forward berth used to power the anchor windlass, but he feels that the motion in the bow, coupled with the debris sloshing about in the knee-deep water, makes retrieving such a heavy object a recipe for injury.

    OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

  • The adjustment between a tai chi punch and a karate punch and a boxer's punch is going to be somewhat less physically than between walking unburdened or with an eighty-pound weight on your head.

    New Under the Sun Steve Perry 2010

  • He is aware that there are two eighty-pound batteries in the forward berth used to power the anchor windlass, but he feels that the motion in the bow, coupled with the debris sloshing about in the knee-deep water, makes retrieving such a heavy object a recipe for injury.

    OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

  • He got off the bench and picked up an eighty-pound barbell to work on his triceps.

    Game For Anything Bella Andre 2010

  • If Annie, an eighty-pound Golden Retriever, starts limping too much from the arthritis in her right shoulder, I rush her to the vet.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love Jack Canfield 2009

  • If Annie, an eighty-pound Golden Retriever, starts limping too much from the arthritis in her right shoulder, I rush her to the vet.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love Jack Canfield 2009

  • So a few nights ago I packed my eighty-pound collie, Harley, into the backseat of the car and drove to the lagoon at Evanston's Dawes Park, where we joined a respectably but not oppressively large crowd of revelers (including a sizable canine contingent) for an hour of Mucca Pazza.

    Robert Rodi: Mad Cow by Moonlight: Mucca Pazza Enchants Evanston 2009

  • Although Jessie, our eighty-pound black Doberman, looked menacing — she snarled at strangers and attacked backyard critters — she was extremely loyal and loving to our family.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

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