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  • Miss Kavanagh has described in the past how Amis, who is just 5ft 4in tall, worried during his student days about being a "shortarse" and having crooked teeth, and suffered from

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • The same with the multiple declmations of 'me shortarse historian, not fighter, here's a quote to prove it', likewise.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: All the Windwracked Stars - Elizabeth Bear Blue Tyson 2008

  • The same with the multiple declmations of 'me shortarse historian, not fighter, here's a quote to prove it', likewise.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • The supporting cast in this are, again, great, my favourite being Fox's uncle Rafi, the shortarse con-man (who at one point in the backstory laid out over the last year manages to lose Fox's sister, Fatima, in a poker game ... to a family of cannibals).

    Friendly Hostility Hal Duncan 2005

  • The supporting cast in this are, again, great, my favourite being Fox's uncle Rafi, the shortarse con-man (who at one point in the backstory laid out over the last year manages to lose Fox's sister, Fatima, in a poker game ... to a family of cannibals).

    Archive 2005-02-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • I wish our current lot would get some shortbacks in stores, as the long ones aren't much fun for a shortarse like me, but there we go.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • And hoppity shortarse Martin Cullen is soon set to depart, what with his back finally caving in (likely due to his utter lack of spine.)

    Irish Blogs Skin Flicks 2010

  • I wish our current lot would get some shortbacks in stores, as the long ones aren't much fun for a shortarse like me, but there we go.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • We never did get the hang of chucking donkeys off of church roofs, and if we breed bulls, it's to improve the stock, not have some shortarse fairy prance about and torture them to death in a girly costume.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • We never did get the hang of chucking donkeys off of church roofs, and if we breed bulls, it's to improve the stock, not have some shortarse fairy prance about and torture them to death in a girly costume.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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