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  • Every night they drank and ate and sang and screwed until they were puking their bloated guts onto the straw-covered floor.

    The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • This was the exact story James Madison used to persuade a straw-covered, slightly tipsy Dolly to finally accept his continual offers of marriage.

    Christian Nation 2010

  • This was the exact story James Madison used to persuade a straw-covered, slightly tipsy Dolly to finally accept his continual offers of marriage.

    Jilly Gagnon: Christian Nation 2010

  • The voyagers were literally shelved: assigned narrow wooden straw-covered pallets stacked in tiers two feet apart ... a few days out, disease swept through the ship — first dysentery, which debilitated, almost eviscerated, its victims and made them vulnerable to deadlier diseases; then smallpox.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • She sat down beside Father Andries and made herself as comfortable as she could, leaning against a large, straw-covered bundle.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • She sat down beside Father Andries and made herself as comfortable as she could, leaning against a large, straw-covered bundle.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • For a long time, there was only one type of Chianti: a cheap straw-covered bottle called a fiasco which doubled as a good description of the wine itself.

    Chianti Without the Candle Wax 2010

  • She sat down beside Father Andries and made herself as comfortable as she could, leaning against a large, straw-covered bundle.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • After lunch, we hiked along a narrow trail that curved around magnificent pines, winding its way to the top of a straw-covered hill.

    Count Your Blessings Jack Canfield 2009

  • After lunch, we hiked along a narrow trail that curved around magnificent pines, winding its way to the top of a straw-covered hill.

    Count Your Blessings Jack Canfield 2009

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