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Men will shelter her, and explain things to her, and cover up for her mistakes; in the worst cases — like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which is a carnival of disaster on a gender front as well as a racial one — her every action will be upstaged by those of a half-grown boy, thus establishing that a male of any age will always be more useful than a woman.
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And to complete it all his horse stumbled upon several large broods of half-grown quail, and the air was filled with the thrum of their flight.
Chapter VIII 2010
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She says that her ex stopped feeding the cats (country people often don't provide food for outdoor cats) and that the two half-grown kittens weren't there when she went to pick them up (she had found a person willing to take them in.)
Kitten Chan-ho and Kitten Chantho: Origins (Updated) nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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It would take a hop, throw out its half-grown wings, take another hop and throw them out again.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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Recently, though, someone abandoned two half-grown kittens here and one of them is really friendly.
Can People with autism/asperger's become published Fiction Writers? nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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It would take a hop, throw out its half-grown wings, take another hop and throw them out again.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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It would take a hop, throw out its half-grown wings, take another hop and throw them out again.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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They braced their half-grown bodies in the path of the ball, gloves ready, tensing for the throw.
Black Water Marcela Fuentes 2011
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But the truth is that the ISS is really only half-grown -- stunted -- starved into a crippled half-adult form.
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It would take a hop, throw out its half-grown wings, take another hop and throw them out again.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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