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In the unlikely chance that permits are actually granted, then comes the lawsuits challenging every aspect of construction, the late breaking discoveries of some hitherto unknown weed or microbe that might be sorta, possibly, perhaps somewhat threatened (potentially), the sit-ins, the tree-huggings, etc to further drag out completion.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”? 2010
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In the unlikely chance that permits are actually granted, then comes the lawsuits challenging every aspect of construction, the late breaking discoveries of some hitherto unknown weed or microbe that might be sorta, possibly, perhaps somewhat threatened potentially, the sit-ins, the tree-huggings, etc to further drag out completion.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”? 2010
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I has no werds ,just huggings for you an yor Fambly.
itteh bitteh sleepeh committeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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When he was come, a thousand huggings, a thousand embracements, a thousand good days were given.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When he was come, a thousand huggings, a thousand embracements, a thousand good days were given.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He has a baked-Alaska cold intelligence inside his pastry warmth of spun hair and quick huggings.
Carter on His Own Wills, Garry 1976
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Evelyn, and Mrs. Brien with hers around Maggie; and there were huggings and kissings and laughings and cryings, and it was, "Oh, you dear!" and,
Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Then came a shout and a rush and such frantic huggings that Polly and her parcels seemed in danger of coming to sorrow.
Polly of the Hospital Staff Emma C. Dowd
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Only now, when there were three children and another one coming, and the house to be kept nice, and the work done up right, and the farmwork and everything going so good, and so much on her mind, why, it seemed as though they'd ought to have other things to think about beside kissings and huggings.
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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The Little-Un, surging plumply out of the nursery, tumbled into his father's arms, and submitted, shouting with glee, to the sort of huggings, kissings, and general inspection to which he was happily accustomed when Burns came home after a longer absence than usual.
Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular 1912
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