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  • My blondest kid is one scabbed-over bugbite right now. poor thing.

    Top Ten Tuesday 2009

  • Instead, Hoyle uses his finely-tuned instrument to communicate deeply-hidden shame, a sense of scabbed-over loss, profound self-righteousness, and hard-boiled folksy ignorance while contrasting such qualities with nearly manic levels of idiotic expertise, comic enthusiasm, and loving tenderness.

    George Heymont: Dan Hoyle Breathes New Life Into Real Americans George Heymont 2010

  • If she needed a reminder, all she had to do was glance at the substantial expanse of scabbed-over skin on her right arm.

    Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

  • Ava watched him the entire time, rubbing her now scabbed-over neck.

    Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010

  • Ava watched him the entire time, rubbing her now scabbed-over neck.

    Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010

  • Instead, Hoyle uses his finely-tuned instrument to communicate deeply-hidden shame, a sense of scabbed-over loss, profound self-righteousness, and hard-boiled folksy ignorance while contrasting such qualities with nearly manic levels of idiotic expertise, comic enthusiasm, and loving tenderness.

    George Heymont: Dan Hoyle Breathes New Life Into Real Americans 2010

  •  Silent Murf was largely toothless, and the gaze from his eyes diverged in opposing directions; his skinny arms were a fancywork of jailhouse tattoos and what appeared to be scabbed-over claw marks.

    Hearts in Exurbia 2009

  • I pushed my hair back from my face, mildly surprised to find I still had hair, and then flinched as my fingers encountered the scabbed-over wound.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Her suit is half caught in her crack, revealing a doughy butt and a scabbed-over mosquito bite.

    If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007

  • Her suit is half caught in her crack, revealing a doughy butt and a scabbed-over mosquito bite.

    If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007

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