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  • Yet, he wrote, It is ridiculous to talk of Apollo when we look at the Rabelaisian, fat-bellied figure of Diego, his flesh bursting out from overtight trousers and his greasy skin appearing tightly stretched from his face to his stomach.

    Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals 2006

  • Yet, he wrote, It is ridiculous to talk of Apollo when we look at the Rabelaisian, fat-bellied figure of Diego, his flesh bursting out from overtight trousers and his greasy skin appearing tightly stretched from his face to his stomach.

    Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals 2006

  • Rushed shooting makes for bad gun mounts, errors in reading the bird's angle, shooting underneath, and fringe-hitting birds with mispointed, overtight patterns.

    Better Bird Shooting 2002

  • Rushed shooting makes for bad gun mounts, errors in reading the bird's angle, shooting underneath, and fringe-hitting birds with mispointed, overtight patterns.

    Better Bird Shooting 2002

  • The very idea had him reaching up to tug at his overtight neckcloth — only to discover that he had removed it before he sat down.

    No Man's Mistress Balogh, Mary 2001

  • But Louis looked, and he felt the relief loosening overtight muscles.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • But Louis looked, and he felt the relief loosening overtight muscles.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • We have outlived the old standards; we have burst like an overtight thong

    Giant Hours with Poet Preachers 1917

  • I had hoped that my difficulties in dealing with an overtight scabbard stud, as we sat down to dinner on Saturday had inconvenienced no one but myself, until it flashed across my mind after I had parted from you that, as you had observed them, it was only too probable that I had the misfortune to keep you waiting.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • I had hoped that my difficulties in dealing with an overtight scabbard stud, as we sat down to dinner on Saturday had inconvenienced no one but myself, until it flashed across my mind after I had parted from you that, as you had observed them, it was only too probable that I had the misfortune to keep you waiting.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

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