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  • "I feel awful-but-" she said, looking down at the shreds of her tunic with astonishment and utter bewilderment.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • There was a terrible fright among humankind recently when some scientists suggested that an abundance of synthetic chemicals was causing lower sperm counts in human males-awful, awful, awful-but this proves not to be the case; sperm counts are holding steady and are even on the rise in New York.

    Recently on This Recording 2009

  • Come now, George, "says I," he's a surly brute, we agree, and his taste in cigars is awful-but he ain't a plotter. "

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Come now, George, "says I," he's a surly brute, we agree, and his taste in cigars is awful-but he ain't a plotter. "

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Come now, George, "says I," he's a surly brute, we agree, and his taste in cigars is awful-but he ain't a plotter. "

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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