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  • And that's the way it works, I find: the children themselves may forget the stories though not if they're about geese with tied-up necks, but the parents remember, keep them, and then introduce them to their grandchildren.

    Picturebook perfect 2011

  • Fire and Ice carry a tied-up George from the van down the street.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum 2009

  • They open it as well as they find a garland of tied-up cops as well as undercover agents lonesome with drug elements.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • So many men in Oakland were out on strike, or were locked out, or were unable to work because of the dependence of their trades on the other tied-up trade's, that odd jobs at common labor were hard to obtain.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • They open it as well as they find a garland of tied-up cops as well as undercover agents lonesome with drug elements.

    Smallville Season 9 Episode 8: Wonder Twins admin 2009

  • It wasn't from the big collection of classic jazz he'd bought, so it must have been the album with the crazy picture of Monk on the cover, with a machine gun over his shoulder, and a tied-up Gestapo officer and a striking female resistance fighter in the background standing next to—a cow.

    A Girl You Couldn't Hurt Con Chapman 2011

  • Would investment bankers done what they did to destabilize the economy, if instead of being paid for short-term performance, have large portion of their compensation tied-up into their retirement, that they will only see if their employers remain healthy long-term?

    Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem 2010

  • Some collectors own way too many coins and they have a considerable amount of money tied-up in “stuff” that has little relevance to their current collection.

    Cleaning Up Your Collection : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • The article and caption stated that this showed a family "enjoying a jolly Shrove Tuesday game of throwing sticks at the tied-up goose".

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • Oh, come on, show a little creativity in what you can do with a tied-up woman, why not?

    bound beauty | My[confined]Space 2009

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