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Examples
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Every night they drank and ate and sang and screwed until they were puking their bloated guts onto the straw-covered floor.
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This was the exact story James Madison used to persuade a straw-covered, slightly tipsy Dolly to finally accept his continual offers of marriage.
Christian Nation 2010
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This was the exact story James Madison used to persuade a straw-covered, slightly tipsy Dolly to finally accept his continual offers of marriage.
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The voyagers were literally shelved: assigned narrow wooden straw-covered pallets stacked in tiers two feet apart ... a few days out, disease swept through the ship — first dysentery, which debilitated, almost eviscerated, its victims and made them vulnerable to deadlier diseases; then smallpox.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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She sat down beside Father Andries and made herself as comfortable as she could, leaning against a large, straw-covered bundle.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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She sat down beside Father Andries and made herself as comfortable as she could, leaning against a large, straw-covered bundle.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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For a long time, there was only one type of Chianti: a cheap straw-covered bottle called a fiasco which doubled as a good description of the wine itself.
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She sat down beside Father Andries and made herself as comfortable as she could, leaning against a large, straw-covered bundle.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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After lunch, we hiked along a narrow trail that curved around magnificent pines, winding its way to the top of a straw-covered hill.
Count Your Blessings Jack Canfield 2009
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After lunch, we hiked along a narrow trail that curved around magnificent pines, winding its way to the top of a straw-covered hill.
Count Your Blessings Jack Canfield 2009
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