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  • They not only stuck out their tongues at day- or even hour-old infants.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • They not only stuck out their tongues at day- or even hour-old infants.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Sure he slurs together his English like an hour-old cocktail, but when he speaks you just have to listen.

    This guy just knows what he's talking about... Peter Schorsch 2008

  • Sure he slurs together his English like an hour-old cocktail, but when he speaks you just have to listen.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Peter Schorsch 2008

  • They ordered coffee in respite, and called my bluff on serving an hour-old pot.

    Christmas story 1 dudemanflab 2006

  • I was as new to a life of action as an hour-old duckling is to water, and this ironical upset of all my plans left me helpless.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • "Take your slangy, freckled, roller-skating, rifle-shooting boys and be off with you!" said Susan, over the hour-old baby, to Billy, who had come flying home in mid-morning.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • They are the shy little bride-wife from the north, with her hour-old baby beside her.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • They are the shy little bride-wife from the north, with her hour-old baby beside her.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • Her hour-old husband looked at her with an expression half-quizzical, half-adoring as she sat back and glanced up with a heartfelt sigh, secure at last of her position as the wife of

    Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

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