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  • November 10, 2008 at 4:29 am likky likky clowzed aiis likky likky likky upperlip yoo no laik teh gushee fud bref?

    There is no snooze button - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • His upperlip was sweating like a pig before the interview was over or maybe that was nasal discharge….ouieeeee….or more apropos….soueeee!

    Think Progress » New Pentagon Office Pushes For More Hardline Broadcasts In Iran 2006

  • His face was remarkably long, his upperlip stretching interminably from a mouth looking to have been freshly smeared with vaseline to a nose not unlike a golfclub in shape.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • His striped suit was rumpled, the collar of his shirt was wrinkled, and dots of perspiration stood out on his upperlip and forehead.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain in her slightly lifted small upperlip and drooped eyelids, was shared by him; and Constance Asper, if not exactly aristocratic by birth, stood well for that aristocratic insular type, which seems to promise the husband of it a casket of all the trusty virtues, as well as the security of frigidity in the casket.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain in her slightly lifted small upperlip and drooped eyelids, was shared by him; and Constance Asper, if not exactly aristocratic by birth, stood well for that aristocratic insular type, which seems to promise the husband of it a casket of all the trusty virtues, as well as the security of frigidity in the casket.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain in her slightly lifted small upperlip and drooped eyelids, was shared by him; and Constance Asper, if not exactly aristocratic by birth, stood well for that aristocratic insular type, which seems to promise the husband of it a casket of all the trusty virtues, as well as the security of frigidity in the casket.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • David Halberstam often appears to be striving for a stiff-upperlip poignancy that has been suggested in a Yeatsian jacket blurb awarded him by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. [

    Bobby Phillips, John 1969

  • "Something's up, I warrant," he told them bluntly, "and you're bound to keep a tight upperlip about it.

    Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold Charles Amory Beach

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