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He throws himself on the bed spreadeagle, with his hand rubbing his thigh.

Susie Bright: George and Martha Do It One More Time 2008

Number four, fix up your spreadeagle and pull your weight! —

Finnegans Wake 2006

The circle of men collapses in on top of me, and two hundred hands clamp around every inch of my arms and legs and I'm lifted spreadeagle toward the light.

Fight Club Palahniuk, Chuck 1996

In the next room Douglas is noisily blasting a Nintendo enemy to kingdom come; Stacy has shut herself in her bedroom, with her ghetto blaster playing at full voltage, and the Gourmet Traveller is lying spreadeagle on the counter.

ME MYSELF I PIP KARMEL 1971

All three of our people were hanging spreadeagle, but Jeffy was the one their version of an

The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel Ann Wilson

Demi lay fast asleep, not in his usual spreadeagle attitude, but in a subdued bunch, cuddled close in the circle of his father's arm and holding his father's finger, as if he felt that justice was tempered with mercy, and had gone to sleep a sadder and wiser baby.

Little Women 1921

Iron itself, on the other hand, and crystal beads, brass pans and spreadeagle dollars appreciated in comparison.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

Demi lay fast asleep, not in his usual spreadeagle attitude, but in a subdued bunch, cuddled close in the circle of his father's arm and holding his father's finger, as if he felt that justice was tempered with mercy, and had gone to sleep a sadder and wiser baby.

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

The $500,000 at Tiffany's was for diamond and white gold 'spreadeagle' pins for his campaign aides.

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My bicycle and I were soon sprawled out spreadeagle across the tarmac.

TreeHugger 2010