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Examples
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The most painful research occurred when I broke my collarbone in a knife-fight class that my knifemaker friend Ernest Emerson taught.
A Conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author, David Morrell 2010
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The area was divided into territories, just like in "West Side Story," except that these were not hubcap-stealing Puerto Ricans in Spanish Harlem settling their differences with the occasional knife-fight; no siree, the downtown guys were seriously into guns and shoot-outs that consumed entire city blocks, slaughtering the innocent and the guilty with equal magnanimity.
A Gangster Goes to War Winston Groom 2010
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He remembers when he had a real clientele: when Creole bands from Havana filled the floor with notes of every color and the dancing only ended when a knife-fight broke out.
El Wu-Tang Clan encuentra la bruja de Brooklyn Marc Horne 2011
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And this thing... a murderous Harvey-rabbit, a knife-fight with Mr. Death's Head, the concluding "Crepa!"...
Obligatory Annual Rehashing of My Fumetti Easter Desecration Post 2010
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Instead of all-out wars of annihilation, the chiefs of opposing tribes would fight each other to death, in a knife-fight, over important issues such as when access to land became a matter of contention.
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You would think based on that meme and the Democratic party's Presidential contenders 'knife-fight/lye-splashing/dog-siccing that McCain would be able to just coast this bad boy on out — right up the war dead's blood-greased road into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Instead of all-out wars of annihilation, the chiefs of opposing tribes would fight each other to death, in a knife-fight, over important issues such as when access to land became a matter of contention.
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Instead of all-out wars of annihilation, the chiefs of opposing tribes would fight each other to death, in a knife-fight, over important issues such as when access to land became a matter of contention.
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You would think based on that meme and the Democratic party's Presidential contenders 'knife-fight/lye-splashing/dog-siccing that McCain would be able to just coast this bad boy on out — right up the war dead's blood-greased road into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Didn't Obama campaign that he would bring a gun to a knife-fight?
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