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  • Getting down on a knee, he filled it with the foul-looking water.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • Getting down on a knee, he filled it with the foul-looking water.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • Ms. Sprague had spent the afternoon sorting a jumble of new arrivals: 21 boxes of medicine containing dried sea horse; an antique sword inlaid with sea turtle shell; several bottles of foul-looking wine purportedly good for treating arthritis with pickled snakes coiled inside.

    Uncle Sam Wants You to Bid on This Fine Weasel Fur Coat 2010

  • Another man, Mr. Gaunt, comes out and yells for Morfin (the first foul-looking fellow) to go back into the house.

    Lianna Kong: Half-Blood Prince, Full-Blooded Synopsis: Harry Potter Book 6 Cheat Sheet, Part II 2008

  • The narrator of his poem chides pesky bankers who try to sell clients collateralized debt obligations and other foul-looking securities, much like the character in the Dr. Seuss classic who is hounded by Sam-I-Am into eating green eggs.

    Title inflation helps recruitment 2007

  • The narrator of his poem chides pesky bankers who try to sell clients collateralized debt obligations and other foul-looking securities, much like the character in the Dr. Seuss classic who is hounded by Sam-I-Am into eating green eggs.

    'Debt Poets Society': Credit crisis goes from bad to verse 2007

  • The narrator of his poem chides pesky bankers who try to sell clients collateralized debt obligations and other foul-looking securities, much like the character in the Dr. Seuss classic who is hounded by Sam-I-Am into eating green eggs.

    Debt Poets Society: 2007

  • With shaking hands he took a dark foul-looking cigarette from a silver case and lit it.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • Sam lounged in the smoking car under a foul-looking yellow duster and the wreckage of a straw hat.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Sam lounged in the smoking car under a foul-looking yellow duster and the wreckage of a straw hat.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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