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over-affectionate

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  • Then David left town for two weeks on business and I knew I had to do something with our lonely, over-affectionate, ADHD dog.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog Jack Canfield 2009

  • Then David left town for two weeks on business and I knew I had to do something with our lonely, over-affectionate, ADHD dog.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog Jack Canfield 2009

  • They won't lose any sleep just because you're being kept awake at night by the over-affectionate attentions of your tatooed cellmate.

    Tackling Organised crime Garry 2006

  • They won't lose any sleep just because you're being kept awake at night by the over-affectionate attentions of your tatooed cellmate.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Garry 2006

  • I haven't met any man who's read Anna Karenina who doesn't think the Kitty-Levin subplot is insipid and a waste of time and who wouldn't rather be married to an cuckolding Anna than to the vaccouous and docile like an over-affectionate puppy is docile Kitty.

    Tolstoy on marriage; Hemingway on non-violence 2005

  • “Silly, over-affectionate goose eggs, is all young women are today,” he blustered but scuttled forward quickly.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • “Silly, over-affectionate goose eggs, is all young women are today,” he blustered but scuttled forward quickly.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • “Silly, over-affectionate goose eggs, is all young women are today,” he blustered but scuttled forward quickly.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • Almost immediately Jim heard the sound of something being bowled over on the floor -- something being licked -- something vainly striving with the over-affectionate pup, and then there came a coo of joy.

    Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

  • Juliet is good-hearted, over-affectionate, and will be kind to the child; but she is rather simple-minded, frivolous, and variable.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

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