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Then the government arrived, in the form of two heavy-built robotic hands that reached into the chamber.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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A heavy-built man bent over her, and a fuzzy gray foal stood to one side.
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A heavy-built student, wearing gold spectacles, stared with some wonder at the questioner.
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A heavy-built man bent over her, and a fuzzy gray foal stood to one side.
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Its high wings and two turboprop engines, its odd-looking boom tail with four vertical stabilizers made it a close twin of the E-2 Hawkeye, though a thicker body gave it a heavy-built, stubby appearance, and it lacked the saucer-shaped radar housing above the fuselage.
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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The captain was a large heavy-built man, very unwieldy, and remarkable only for having a large, long body placed upon very small legs.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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The mill-owner let them go without a word, not attempting to follow them, for it was an arduous climb to the lookout, and the mill-owner was a stout and heavy-built man, and had not been up there for years.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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James was a stout, heavy-built young man of twenty-six years of age, and looked as if he might have a great deal of valuable work in him.
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Unayza, a district famous for its breed of large, heavy-built horses.
The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest
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A heavy-built student, wearing gold spectacles, stared with some wonder at the questioner.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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