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  • If you ever get sick of sheriffing, you can become a full-time painter.

    The Huckleberry Murders Patrick F. McManus 2010

  • Matter of fact, I'd heard the sheriff mutter at least a half dozen times that if she didn't get through with her change of life soon, he might take up sheriffing somewhere like Mars.

    Static 2010

  • If you ever get sick of sheriffing, you can become a full-time painter.

    The Huckleberry Murders Patrick F. McManus 2010

  • My hope is one day to give up sheriffing and become a poor but otherwise modestly successful full-time artist.

    The Huckleberry Murders Patrick F. McManus 2010

  • When he took up his sheriffing name of Huck Finn, he just had to have a deputy named Tom and another named Joe.

    Static 2010

  • My hope is one day to give up sheriffing and become a poor but otherwise modestly successful full-time artist.

    The Huckleberry Murders Patrick F. McManus 2010

  • Today, with eight years of sheriffing and shooting-up turning this country into a modern version of the Tombstone Territory, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

    Mike Bonifer: Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney 2008

  • Even so, since the beginning of his sheriffing days, he was known to be a generous man, not a harsh disciplinarian.

    Historical Novel about...Pembina Trish Short Lewis 2006

  • But Colin Ferguson pictured, as the common-sense marshal who ends up sheriffing the quirky burg has a naturalness with the material that keeps everything grounded.

    Notes from the Couch: 'Eureka' and 'Battlestar' | EW.com 2006

  • When he took up his sheriffing name of Huck Finn, he just had to have a deputy named Tom and another named Joe.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

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