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  • She scoops Lucas up and rocks him in this figure-eight motion, humming him quiet.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • The ropes are then threaded through a figure-eight device clamped into the harness, allowing kloofers to "abseil," or rappel, great distances at a controlled clip.

    Between a Rock and a Waterfall Peter Wonacott 2011

  • So, I'm basically the guy in charge of teaching knots at my Boy Scout summer camp, and just in the thumbnail, two of them are wrong. top-right starts out as a figure-eight (which is a stopper knot), but turns into a figure-eight follow-through, which is (for most purposes) just a figure-eight on a bight the left-hand part of the bottom-right is a sheet bend ...

    Knot Reference Wallet Card Keeps Your Knot Knowledge Fresh | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • “Probably 'cause of your people's higher level of education,” Embry says as he eyes the car on his right about to cross the center point of the derby's figure-eight pattern.

    Kosher Krusher Stems Jewish Intermarriage Through Demolition Derby Con Chapman 2011

  • “Probably 'cause of your people's higher level of education,” Embry says as he eyes the car on his right about to cross the center point of the derby's figure-eight pattern.

    Kosher Krusher Stems Jewish Intermarriage Through Demolition Derby Con Chapman 2011

  • She scoops Lucas up and rocks him in this figure-eight motion, humming him quiet.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • A moment later he ties a figure-eight knot through a ring in my harness.

    Into the Heart of the Ice Bill Streever 2011

  • That figure-eight Dior silhouette defined the atomic age as much as Chevrolet fins and baked Alaska.

    Fashion's Real Housewives Christina Binkley 2011

  • One pair was moving in a figure-eight pattern that threaded around the yurts on the western side of the camp, while the other pair did the same thing on the eastern side.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • She pulls my boxers off and licks the tip of my cock in a figure-eight pattern.

    Monkeytown excerpt 5 Chris Vola 2011

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