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  • Crawling up the slope, he was shaking and sweating, not from mere exertion but from gut-deep fear.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • I closed it with a sense of complete and utter satisfaction, and this gut-deep sense that Mercury and his heroine would make it, that they were absolutely meant to be together.

    Mercury's War - Lora Leigh Nalini Singh 2008

  • It's gut-deep in America, twisted 'round her innards and un-purged even as we facetiously scream “We are cured!”

    Miss Ashley and Her Chifferobe...Busted. 2008

  • Crawling up the slope, he was shaking and sweating, not from mere exertion but from gut-deep fear.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • I closed it with a sense of complete and utter satisfaction, and this gut-deep sense that Mercury and his heroine would make it, that they were absolutely meant to be together.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Nalini Singh 2008

  • Crawling up the slope, he was shaking and sweating, not from mere exertion but from gut-deep fear.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • It's gut-deep in America, twisted 'round her innards and un-purged even as we facetiously scream “We are cured!”

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • But he kept his clothes on, because he wanted it too much and because he knew, gut-deep, bone-strong, that whatever need she felt for him in this moment came from all the wrong places.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • But he kept his clothes on, because he wanted it too much and because he knew, gut-deep, bone-strong, that whatever need she felt for him in this moment came from all the wrong places.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • He'd done his best to conceal the gut-deep fear, but he didn't know how much she'd discerned anyway.

    In the Midnight Hour 2007

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