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  • Am sending you mansize boxes of tissues and millionaires shortbread all virtual, obviously...

    Not even swine flu The List Writer 2009

  • Now that Alvin had his full mansize on hfin, he could do the whole work of the smithy, and faster and better than Makepeace.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • Folks had changed, more than a little -- Cally was mansize now, and Measure had him a wife and children, and the twins Wastenot and Wantnot had married them a pair of French sisters from Detroit, and Ma and Pa was both grey-haired mostly, and moving slower than Alvin liked to see.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • One might even suppose they was prosperous, considering they had six big boys, from mansize on down to twins that had wrestled each other into being a good deal stronger than their dozen years.

    Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987

  • More or less mansize, it hunkered on four limbs, black-furred, its head obscured by a heavy mane.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • He watched them as they approached, finally detailing themselves into two naked, pink creatures of manshape and only slightly more than mansize.

    Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962

  • It had developed from a weak, wobbling uncertainty into a lusty full-blooded thing that grew and grew until it promised soon to become mansize.

    Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

  • Poor lass, thought I, and considered offering a broad Teesside shoulder and a box of mansize tissues.

    BBC - Ouch BBC Sport 2010

  • So, on the range, with a mansize silhoutte - isn't it the aim to hit the body mass?

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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