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Examples
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He was a very reserved man, and his natural inhibition was large in quantity and steel-like in quality.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Behind every steel-like contraction of a muscle, lay another steel-like contraction, and another, and another, apparently without end.
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He was a very reserved man, and his natural inhibition was large in quantity and steel-like in quality.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Being my first dip into this universe, any additional WH40K world-building the story may have had -- beyond the Thunder Wolves being driven by duty and honor and riding battle-augmented beasts with steel-like fur that acts as armor (How cool is that?) -- was lost on me.
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His grey eyes seemed metallic and steel-like as they flashed upon the crowd.
The Clinging Death 2010
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She held out her arms for him to place the wrap about her -- her valiant little arms that were so wise and steel-like in battling with the breakers, and that yet were such just mere-woman's arms, round and warm and white, delicious as a woman's arms should be, with the canny muscles, masking under soft-roundness of contour and fine smooth skin, capable of being flexed at will by the will of her.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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But he made no sound and, except for the steel-like hardening of the muscles of his shoulder beneath her hand, gave no other sign of the pain she knew he had to feel.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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But he made no sound and, except for the steel-like hardening of the muscles of his shoulder beneath her hand, gave no other sign of the pain she knew he had to feel.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Their wealth might have faded and their steel-like bodies grown softer, but their legacy is intact.
Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank united by pain's abiding memory Kevin Mitchell 2010
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While in prison he underwent experiments that gave him steel-like skin and superhuman strength.
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