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Examples
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Maybe it's just the pressure of sharing an elevator with a short glad-handing pink-headed guy every day, who never stops asking them if they'd support him, their quasi-crypto-pro-choice old buddy.
McCain Endorsed By Anti-Escalation Senators Snowe And Collins 2009
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I was a pink-headed bug, climbing up the side of the Civic Hall … nobby |
tea 2007
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(Arrenga cyanea and Myophonus flavirostris), the fine pink-headed dove (Ptilonopus porphyreus), three broad-tailed ground pigeons
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Pete, you pink-headed, glandered cayuse, drop that neck or I'll skin you alive.
The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers Willard F. Baker
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He followed them, but they hurried on, pushing so sturdily through a flock of pink-headed sheep, which poured in a wave over the pavement, that they might have out-run the rain had they not been brought to a sudden standstill by a funeral procession.
The Golden Silence 1901
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These spots attracted and yet repelled her, as she peered cautiously down, to see that they were half hidden by long strands of bramble, with tufts of pink-headed hemp agrimony, and lower down the sides and archway infringed with the loveliest of ferns.
Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870
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On the other hand we have the peacock, the green jungle cock, two blue ground thrushes (Arrenga cyanea and Myophonus flavirostris), the fine pink-headed dove (Ptilonopus porphyreus), three broad-tailed ground pigeons (Macropygia), and many other interesting birds, which are found nowhere in the Archipelago out of Java.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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I had always said, and do you know that pink-headed Scotchman put it down in the book and carried it to my lady.
The Girl at Cobhurst Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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Himalayan crane, pink-headed duck, Jerdon's courser, great Indian bustard, long billed vulture and cinerous vulture are endangered.
The Times of India 2010
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In a pasture nearby, Samson, a Great Pyrenees dog, guards broiler chickens and 200 pink-headed young turkeys from skunk, fox, and cats.
unknown title 2009
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