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The obsessive-compulsive scholar and the rolling-stone soldier of fortune.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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The obsessive-compulsive scholar and the rolling-stone soldier of fortune.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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The obsessive-compulsive scholar and the rolling-stone soldier of fortune.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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Just a hometown boy, born a rolling-stone … DiMEO: Country stars like Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney already sounded a lot like Bon Jovi.
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Once a story like this hits, it has a rolling-stone effect of its own, doesn't it?
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By and by the letter started to make a tour of the gentlemen's rooms, and, unlike the rolling-stone that gathered no moss, it gathered laughter as it moved.
Stage Confidences Clara Morris
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Two hickory saplings are affixed to the hogshead, for shafts by boring an auger-hole through them to receive the gudgeons or pivots, in the manner of a field rolling-stone; and these receive pins of wood, square tapered points, which are admitted through square mortises made central in the heading, and driven a considerable depth into the solid tobacco.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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That's one trip your rolling-stone of an aunt has never taken, and I'd rather like to add it to my collection.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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He was one of those rolling-stone Englishmen, whose early lives are spent in all parts of the world, and in all kinds of physical conflict -- a man like a hickory stick, tall, thin, bolt-upright, knotty, hard as nails, with a curved fighting back to his head and a straight fighting front to his brown face.
Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900
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He was one of those rolling-stone Englishmen, whose early lives are spent in all parts of the world, and in all kinds of physical conflict -- a man like a hickory stick, tall, thin, bolt-upright, knotty, hard as nails, with a curved fighting back to his head and a straight fighting front to his brown face.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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