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  • Her legs were stockingless, and I had noticed when she walked that her bare feet were thrust into the crinkly, iron-like shoes that sloshed about her lean ankles at every step.

    SAMUEL 2010

  • Or is our iron-like willpower supposed to overcome such trivial realities?

    Matthew Yglesias » Condi Rice, Appeaser 2007

  • But it looks like it will go forward and what will happen essentially is that President Robert Mugabe has ruled the country since 1980 with an increasingly iron-like grip will be the next president of the country -- Tony?

    CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2008 2008

  • Even good old Marks and Spencers has got in on the act with their modern day iron-like corsets called 'Shape Wear' .

    The rise of the MILF Chickenlady 2007

  • Even good old Marks and Spencers has got in on the act with their modern day iron-like corsets called 'Shape Wear' .

    Archive 2007-01-01 Chickenlady 2007

  • He still held Kirstie in an iron-like grip, though she had dropped her feet to the ground, and he felt the waves of intense pleasure that rocked her body the same as his.

    At The Spaniard's Convenience Mayo, Margaret 2006

  • The work was subtle, remote, fanciful — a snow scene with purple edges; a thinking satyr, iron-like in his heaviness, brooding over a cloudy valley; a lurking devil peering at a praying Marguerite; a Dutch interior inspired by Mrs. Batjer, and various dancing figures.

    The Titan 2004

  • At the very edge of the landing-stage stood Yakov Tarasovich, squeezed between two stout women, with his iron-like face lifted upward, and he waved his cap in the air with malicious politeness.

    The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

  • Among the trees reared a broken dome-like structure, built of gigantic blocks of the peculiar iron-like green stone found only on the islands of Vilayet.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Among the trees reared a broken dome-like structure, built of gigantic blocks of the peculiar iron-like green stone found only on the islands of Vilayet.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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