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We are lean and wretched, and our bones show through our tight-stretched skins.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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His body was thin and gaunt, without flesh-pads or muscles, while the bones seemed ready to break through the tight-stretched skin.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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Something rustled under the wall behind me, and I whirled and froze in my tracks, my hand fumbling for the butt of my pistol but checked by sheer terror as a figure moved out from the wall, lean and lithe as a cat-and I gasped as the light fell on the tight-stretched skin of a painted face, with eyes like coals, and above, the double feathers of a Navajo Indian.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Inside, just under the tight-stretched skin of her belly, she felt she could hear a minute heart gallop like a horse, an unformed mouth trying to form words to say to its mother.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Thereon did Cypris, fairest of the blessed gods, first catch up the crashing cymbals, native to that land, and the drum with tight-stretched skin, and then Demeter smiled, and in her hand. did take the deep-toned flute, well pleased with its loud note.
Helen 2008
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Also I believe he was in a tight-stretched spandex-like costume at the end, but I think they left out the nipples at least.
Will Smith Says Hancock 2 Definitely Will Happen « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Thereon did Cypris, fairest of the blessed gods, first catch up the crashing cymbals, native to that land, and the drum with tight-stretched skin, and then Demeter smiled, and in her hand. did take the deep-toned flute, well pleased with its loud note.
Helen 2008
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Inside, just under the tight-stretched skin of her belly, she felt she could hear a minute heart gallop like a horse, an unformed mouth trying to form words to say to its mother.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Inside, just under the tight-stretched skin of her belly, she felt she could hear a minute heart gallop like a horse, an unformed mouth trying to form words to say to its mother.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He awakens with the tent dark except for a tiny amount of moonlight or starlight seeping through the tight-stretched hides.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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