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  • In Zen there is the saying that sometimes the kindest angels are from helling, meaning that sometimes the frank, harsh and brutal truth is necessary instead of trying to sugar coat everything.

    Politics and Positive Psychology; Reconciling and Integrating Them 2006

  • "Someone's s helling peas, someone's putting butter on the lobster they love it and they get to drink at the same time otherwise they're all here, watching you, going, 'When is it ready?'"

    Hosting Summer Guests the Relaxing Way 2010

  • Assume for a moment (we're going to do a very short James Thurber slash Walter Mitty riff here) that I am helling around Venice on a Vespa reviewing Sophia Loren look-alikes to invite out for coffee.

    Daniel Krotz: The Awkward Age 2009

  • He was watching us helling along and the other two buff galloping.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • He was watching us helling along and the other two buff galloping.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • He was watching us helling along and the other two buff galloping.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • Dragging his feet a bit, but who wouldn't after being out helling all night?

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Dragging his feet a bit, but who wouldn't after being out helling all night?

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • He was watching us helling along and the other two buff galloping.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • We'll go whooping and yelling, we'll all go a-helling;

    Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

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