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If I'd come on this video cold, I would have thought that the smug, chin up-thrust Ms. Bazelon writes the cooking column for a small-town Iowa newspaper.
"What Do Women Diavloggers Want?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Another stack of Anarki had been piled shoulder-high when Ice ripped off the handrail from the wrought iron staircase, then shoved them on the up-thrust rails.
Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009
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Another stack of Anarki had been piled shoulder-high when Ice ripped off the handrail from the wrought iron staircase, then shoved them on the up-thrust rails.
Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009
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The maximum up-thrust occurred in central Altai with a maximum rise of 3,000 m to 4,000 m.
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Another stack of Anarki had been piled shoulder-high when Ice ripped off the handrail from the wrought iron staircase, then shoved them on the up-thrust rails.
Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009
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Another stack of Anarki had been piled shoulder-high when Ice ripped off the handrail from the wrought iron staircase, then shoved them on the up-thrust rails.
Possess Me At Midnight SHAYLA BLACK 2009
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Something indeed there is otherworldly about Obama and his up-thrust jaw.
Let's look at the photos the NYT uses to illustrate a piece titled "On Bailout, Candidates Were Surely Themselves." Ann Althouse 2008
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Big and burly, thews like Hercules, shoulders as wide as mountains, an ugly face whose nose strove to meet an up-thrust chin across a small, thick-lipped mouth.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Big and burly, thews like Hercules, shoulders as wide as mountains, an ugly face whose nose strove to meet an up-thrust chin across a small, thick-lipped mouth.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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But the to-the-life resemblance was truly to be seen in the set of the mouth, in the slightly up-thrust chin and most of all in the unstoppable self-confidence of the eyes.
The Delicate Storm Blunt, Giles 2003
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