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Examples
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Why, there's music sharps that fine-strung an 'keyed-up they'd kill for heaps less'n I did.
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For what eternities have I wandered through them, a timid, hunted creature, starting at the least sound, frightened of my own shadow, keyed-up, ever alert and vigilant, ready on the instant to dash away in mad flight for my life.
CHAPTER I 2010
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By the time I take my seat for the show I am intrigued, even a bit keyed-up.
Among the psychics 2011
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He watched horse races on television because he liked the keyed-up voices of the announcers.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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She felt too keyed-up to sleep, but she had to try.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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She felt too keyed-up to sleep, but she had to try.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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He watched horse races on television because he liked the keyed-up voices of the announcers.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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He watched horse races on television because he liked the keyed-up voices of the announcers.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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Something in both that sentiment (the opposite of the keyed-up political hysterics on our own dial) and that last choice of word relaxed me — and almost instantly conjured up colonial history with all its complexities.
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Something in both that sentiment (the opposite of the keyed-up political hysterics on our own dial) and that last choice of word relaxed me — and almost instantly conjured up colonial history with all its complexities.
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