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She looked over at Nilly, who looked at her with innocent blue eyes, but puffed-out balloon cheeks, as he hurriedly tried to swallow the last of the evidence.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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She looked over at Nilly, who looked at her with innocent blue eyes, but puffed-out balloon cheeks, as he hurriedly tried to swallow the last of the evidence.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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But I'm saying it with a puffed-out chest and a scary Tom Coughlin look on my face.
This New Year's, Everyone Get Lit Jason Gay 2011
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They do this by performing walks that resemble a street-tough gang member strutting his stuff -- head high, bill angled up, with a puffed-out neck and chest.
Dr. Reese Halter: Clever Ravens -- Winged Masters of Deception 2010
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They do this by performing walks that resemble a street-tough gang member strutting his stuff -- head high, bill angled up, with a puffed-out neck and chest.
Dr. Reese Halter: Clever Ravens -- Winged Masters of Deception 2010
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"Aphrodite" is a better-than-average entry in the Minogue canon, though it varies little in either texture or tone from what has become a well-thumbed formula: lots of strikingly good, and strikingly similar, glitzy Euro-pop numbers, this time girded by an army of puffed-out synths and undercut by the occasional obligatory ballad, and all sung in Minogue's gossamer-thin coo.
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I know the face I see in photos, too, but that can't be me, because I can feel that my face is animated and lively and the one in photos is invariably slightly cross or blurry or has one puffed-out cheek because I'm in the middle of eating.
Forget those fashionistas – let's make cellulite the must-have look 2010
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At least half of them bore brindled stripes and puffed-out facial ruffs similar to RK's.
Massage 2010
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My lord—I had not seen him in person before—was small, and his furs and silks and chains and puffed-out sleeves made him seem as wide as he was tall.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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They do this by performing walks that resemble a street-tough gang member strutting his stuff -- head high, bill angled up, with a puffed-out neck and chest.
Dr. Reese Halter: Clever Ravens -- Winged Masters of Deception 2010
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