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  • Oh, an ai started owy bai lissnin 2 deh pi sawng bai hawd n phurm.

    Hmmm. You make - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Ai did a furteen howr dai todai – but Ai juss plai owy awn mai byk fur a livin so its nawt lyk a reel job!

    Dis mah hooman imitashun - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Howsumebber— tehrz a hole lotza thrashin and splashin goin awn owy dere…

    BUKKIT SERCH PARTY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Anyway, I'm only slightly less owy than yesterday, but yesterday I am WAY less owie than I was on Thursday.

    31st January '04 2004

  • In the shad - owy concealment of the trees, in the silence of the forest, he sought the boy.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • The gaslights which turned the chandelier into a brilliant jewel until two of the clock or so on most nights were now turned down to guttering blue points, and the long, high room was shad-owy and spectral.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Then, something moved at the limit of his vision, a shad-owy flicker partially concealed by the curving walls of the naturally eroded cavern.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

  • While my Lady Lostris spoke from the wings, her shad-owy alter ego on stage stood over the mummiform figure of Osiris and made a series of mystical gestures.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • Shad - owy stands of acacia rose against the haze, and ribbons of black lava rock disappeared into other worlds.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • Now, as he approached the cloakroom door, he felt that same daz-zling burst of hope, a certainty that the door would not open on a shad-owy closet containing only the persistent smells of winter-flannel, rubber, and wet wool-but on some other world where he could be whale again.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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