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Wind-blown white caps and sharp, knife-like waves readied to swallow my life.
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He let her go abruptly and stood an inch from her, the smell of liquor rising knife-like from his breath.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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What they'd found instead was a different small dinosaur, a carnivore with "steak knife-like teeth for jabbing into meat" that could run about 20 miles per hour, says Sereno.
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Log in to Reply willzone (UID#4158) on August 21st, 2009 at 7: 56 am of course constrictors have fangs. non-poisonous but thats how they latch onto their prey to anchor the constriction. the fangs are bigger, thicker and more knife-like than poisonous ones
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For Part II, the Passion, the mood turned darker, with more sound from the bass instruments and the organ and more word-painting from the chorus the weight on "iniquity" in "Surely he hath borne our griefs"; a knife-like slash on "deliver" in "He trusted in God".
Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama Heidi Waleson 2011
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Who can cut a blazer that falls with knife-like accuracy to affect the illusion of a perfectly V-shaped torso?
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We stopped the car so that I could try to get a picture of this phenomenon which happens periodically in areas surrounding sugar cane plantations during the time that they are burned to remove their knife-like leaves and prepare the cane for cutting.
The Zapata Route In Morelos Part 2: His Heart Stopped Beating 2008
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Engineers, biologists, and marine scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have joined forces to discover how the soft, gelatinous squid can operate its knife-like beak without tearing itself to pieces. ...
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Its rounded exterior and knife-like hull make it difficult for intruders to board.
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Like Jack's knife-like 1-iron on seventeen to clinch his victory in 1972, or Tom Watson's legendary chip-in from the rough also on seventeen to snatch the win from Nicklaus in '82.
Barry Salberg: Let's Not Kid: It's Phil, Tiger, and Pebble That We Really Care About at the US Open Barry Salberg 2010
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