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  • “Now I hear the same grunting out here that we get during a forceps delivery of a twelve-pound baby.”

    Men Respond to Women's Tennis Grunts With Armpit Farts Con Chapman 2011

  • “Now I hear the same grunting out here that we get during a forceps delivery of a twelve-pound baby.”

    Men Respond to Women's Tennis Grunts With Armpit Farts Con Chapman 2011

  • One Sunday afternoon, months after college, my father woke me up by dropping a twelve-pound weight on my head.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Marshall Karp, part one 2009

  • His third marriage occurred in 1872, when he was fifty-eight, and in 1874, although he lost the mother, a twelve-pound boy, stout-barreled and husky-lunged, remained to be brought up by a regiment of nurses in the palace on Nob Hill.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • They dragged along twelve six-pound guns and four twelve-pound howitzers.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • They dragged along twelve six-pound guns and four twelve-pound howitzers.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • The major had collected data on the effects that various weapons had on targets at various ranges, including data that showed how much shrapnel actually whistled through the air around a bursting artillery shell.42 He did the math and found that six twelve-pound artillery guns of the time could subject an exposed group of soldiers to about three hundred bits of shrapnel per minute.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Its original twelve-pound cannons are still in place.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • They were short-barreled, large-caliber guns with large spoked wheels that fired twelve-pound payloads.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • I have a lot of respect for the fish, the acrobatics—a ten- or twelve-pound steelhead tailwalking down the water, taking out all your line.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

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