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  • Not because my taste is so great in my opinion, but because these books are so blow-away wonderful.

    msagara: On writerly delusions, starting with my own msagara 2009

  • A shrinking, clinging sort of a girl, Freda pictured her, with weak mouth and pretty pouting lips, blow-away sun-kissed hair, and eyes full of the merry shallows and the lesser joys of life.

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • In an interview, Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer , described early sales of the iPhone 4S as "blow-away," and said "we enter the holiday quarter with tremendous momentum."

    Apple Loses Some of Its Shine Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011

  • A shrinking, clinging sort of a girl, Freda pictured her, with weak mouth and pretty pouting lips, blow-away sun-kissed hair, and eyes full of the merry shallows and the lesser joys of life.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • You know, that's pretty blow-away for a guy that brought Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin together for the Mideast peace talks.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2009 2009

  • I would say, if you can afford it and if this is the big, big, big blow-away gift, I don't know, I'm thinking maybe 15.

    Ask Amy: The Etiquette Of Re-Gifting 2008

  • The alternative is not an ordinary nova, sir, but a supernova beginning with a core collapse, progressing to a chromosphere and photosphere blow-away, and culminating with a total collapse into a neutron star that worsens into a black hole.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • The alternative is not an ordinary nova, sir, but a supernova beginning with a core collapse, progressing to a chromosphere and photosphere blow-away, and culminating with a total collapse into a neutron star that worsens into a black hole.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • The alternative is not an ordinary nova, sir, but a supernova beginning with a core collapse, progressing to a chromosphere and photosphere blow-away, and culminating with a total collapse into a neutron star that worsens into a black hole.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • One day, Wee Wun became a careful housekeeper and weeded out of the dandelion garden all the blue blow-away plants that grew from the seeds he had scattered there in the Stir-About-Wife's garden, and when he came home his troubles were over, and the Hop-About-Man was gone.

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

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