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But still, a 100-pound fish is a 100-pound fish, and I give the angler lots of credit for trying in the first place and for pulling it off.
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Cars go flying off the edge of cliffs, 100-pound weights get dropped from roofs onto the heads of bad guys, the hero himself is flattened into paper-thinness by a steamroller or hit by a series of arrows that go plunk! plunk! plunk!
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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He grew up on a border farm in Northern Ireland's County Fermanagh, left school barely literate at 14 and started his first construction-gravel business with a 100-pound $150 bank loan.
Sean Quinn, Once Ireland's Richest Man, Declares Bankruptcy With Debts Exceeding $2.7 Billion 2012
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Since the end of February, and into the beginning of March, my 100-pound dog has eaten my homework, keeping me from doing my part of what is necessary for All Things Girl to be prepared to launch.
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Cars go flying off the edge of cliffs, 100-pound weights get dropped from roofs onto the heads of bad guys, the hero himself is flattened into paper-thinness by a steamroller or hit by a series of arrows that go plunk! plunk! plunk!
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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But when Guarino was taken out of his cell, they saw a 100-pound guy whose knees were ballooned from prolonged forced kneeling on concrete floors and whose ankles and wrists were rust-colored from shackles.
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No doubt many children, movie actors and devout socialists were impressed by the government flea market of shiny Soyuz spacecraft, Armenian micro-art and 100-pound reel-to-reel tape decks.
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But still, a 100-pound fish is a 100-pound fish, and I give the angler lots of credit for trying in the first place and for pulling it off.
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That means, for instance, a 100-pound teen should only be hauling 10 pounds.
How Heavy Can a Backpack Get? Willa Plank 2011
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It used to be that James was so strong he could lift 100-pound bags; the last time he bought cement to make a home repair, he had trouble hefting 50 pounds.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Caretaker of God's Garden Nancy Ruhling 2011
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