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Then he saw them strike a crawl-stroke, side by side, faces downward, full-lengths out-stretched on surface, their feet sculling like propellers and their arms flailing in rapid over-hand strokes, as they spurted speed to approximate the speed of the overtaking wave, so that, when overtaken, they would become part of the wave, and travel with it instead of being left behind it.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Which they did, in a long row, side by side, the shorter-tailed ones cheating and stretching to gain length on themselves, the longer-tailed ones cheating and stretching in order not to be out-cheated and out-stretched.
The Water Baby 2010
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Cormorants with out-stretched wings stood on the rocks drying themselves.
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(Are you REALLY going to try to defend Jsu Garcia's lame-ass "TINA" and out-stretched hand while she is disemboweled in mid-air?)
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Which they did, in a long row, side by side, the shorter-tailed ones cheating and stretching to gain length on themselves, the longer-tailed ones cheating and stretching in order not to be out-cheated and out-stretched.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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Cormorants with out-stretched wings stood on the rocks drying themselves.
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I held my hand up as high as I could, and he reached down, with a look of amused delight, grabbed my out-stretched hand and shookhis processed-hair head vigorously,as he held me firm, kind of in a happy parody of The Beatles' famous "Ooooo!" head-shake move yes, of course, I had full-blown Beatles hair.
Binky Philips: "National and International Known, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One... Jaaaaaaaaaaaames Brown!" Binky Philips 2011
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I held my hand up as high as I could, and he reached down, with a look of amused delight, grabbed my out-stretched hand and shookÂhis processed-hair head vigorously,Âas he held me firm, kind of in a happy parody of The Beatles' famous "Ooooo!" head-shake move yes, of course, I had full-blown Beatles hair.
Binky Philips: "National and International Known, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One... Jaaaaaaaaaaaames Brown!" Binky Philips 2011
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I held my hand up as high as I could, and he reached down, with a look of amused delight, grabbed my out-stretched hand and shookhis processed-hair head vigorously,as he held me firm, kind of in a happy parody of The Beatles' famous "Ooooo!" head-shake move yes, of course, I had full-blown Beatles hair.
Binky Philips: "National and International Known, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One... Jaaaaaaaaaaaames Brown!" Binky Philips 2011
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Suddenly we both saw a woman in a white gauzy/filmy dress lunge up from the side of the road, her hands out-stretched, her face tormented.
ALA aftermath Roger Sutton 2009
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