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At any moment that soft, confidence-inspiring voice might break forth in a roar of wrath, that gentle and caressing hand transform itself into a vice-like grip to hold him helpless and administer punishment.
The Love-Master 2010
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The tech was kind, gentle and apologetic for smooshing my breasts into the vice-like machine.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Diagnosis: Breast Cancer -- My World Stopped Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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This team have won only one league title since 2006 and watched enviously as Manchester United have re-established their vice-like grip on the Premier League since.
Chelsea's new age under André Villas-Boas falls short of a makeover | Dominic Fifield 2011
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Peterson's dream of reshaping Americans 'perceptions toward race relations and changing the way we talk about race collides with the reality of corporate media's vice-like grip on the megaphone of mass communications and the hidden problems of race relations in the media industry.
Mike Green: Latoya Peterson: Media, Entrepreneurship and Birth of a New Nation Mike Green 2010
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I closed my eyes and imagined her jumping up, resurrecting, gripping me by the t-shirt with a vice-like grip and saying, I know what you're doing, and I don't approve…don't you worry, sonny.
Molecules Joe Deir 2011
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Following instructions from Seth, Tim held the twisted foot in a vice-like grip, and Seth turned to re-set it.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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The tech was kind, gentle and apologetic for smooshing my breasts into the vice-like machine.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Diagnosis: Breast Cancer -- My World Stopped Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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The tech was kind, gentle and apologetic for smooshing my breasts into the vice-like machine.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Diagnosis: Breast Cancer -- My World Stopped Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Following instructions from Seth, Tim held the twisted foot in a vice-like grip, and Seth turned to re-set it.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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Peterson's dream of reshaping Americans 'perceptions toward race relations and changing the way we talk about race collides with the reality of corporate media's vice-like grip on the megaphone of mass communications and the hidden problems of race relations in the media industry.
Mike Green: Latoya Peterson: Media, Entrepreneurship and Birth of a New Nation Mike Green 2010
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