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  • And then she came — a big, brown-eyed girl, full-built and coarse, with good, heavy hands, and rough hide brogues on her feet as if she had been a Lapp, and a calfskin bag slung from her shoulders.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • He saw a pale, full-built young man with rather long, solid fair hair hanging from under his black hat, moving cumbrously down the room, his face lit up with a smile at once naive and warm, and vapid.

    Women in Love 1907

  • The full-built, slightly blowsy city girl looked at the fine face of the other woman, with appreciation.

    Women in Love 1907

  • Rakshas's palaces rise, full-built, before our very eyes, or when

    Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

  • Cook, seeing that I was then the boatswain of the Hussar, and she couldn't have made one of Cook's squadron, being a post-ship, and commanded by a full-built captain; but I _was_ in them seas when a younker, and can back Catfall's account of the matter by my largest anchor, in the way of history.

    The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "They don't have a full-built program yet," he said.

    mgoblog 2008

  • "They don't have a full-built program yet," he said.

    Scout.com > SuperPrep.com 2008

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