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  • Van Horn, regarding the shore for some sign of life, lighted a cigar and put one hand to the waist-line of his loin-cloth to reassure himself of the presence of the stick of dynamite that was tucked between the loin-cloth and his skin.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • He's every waist-line inch that figure, and his slowly coming-undone Lyman is a sad portrait to observe.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" is Red-Hot David Finkle 2011

  • For those looking to dine with good intentions of the heart, not the waist-line, TAG is teaming up with Family HomeStead's Adopt-A-family Program on Dec. 6 and 7.

    Emily Zarka: Eat, Drink and Be Merry With Holiday Events Emily Zarka 2010

  • For those looking to dine with good intentions of the heart, not the waist-line, TAG is teaming up with Family HomeStead's Adopt-A-family Program on Dec. 6 and 7.

    Emily Zarka: Eat, Drink and Be Merry With Holiday Events Emily Zarka 2010

  • Maybe "The Deflated Beachball Badge" is appropriate for Madams 'never being photographed below the waist-line, but "The Stained Blivit Medal for Terminal Halitosis" is hereby awarded to all others.

    Give Hillary a Medal 2008

  • For those looking to dine with good intentions of the heart, not the waist-line, TAG is teaming up with Family HomeStead's Adopt-A-family Program on Dec. 6 and 7.

    Emily Zarka: Eat, Drink and Be Merry With Holiday Events Emily Zarka 2010

  • The open-range musketry target in use at this time consisted of the usual concentric circles, but with a naked human figure in the centre; the bull was a black disc discreetly placed below the figure's waist-line. (p. 17)

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Watch your expenditures, and your waist-line, and your cholesterol levels, shrink.

    Elissa Altman: Cheap and Easy: Good Food in a Bad Recession 2009

  • The Holidays produce extra stress, from close encounters with family and in-laws with the attendant emotional issues, to extra doses of sugar and fat that stretch the boundaries of the waist-line and suppress the immune system further.

    Anne Dunev: Secrets to Avoiding Winter Flu Blues 2009

  • One day you are twenty-seven years old and the world is your oyster; three eye-blinks later and you're fifty-seven with thinning hair and a thickening waist-line, wondering where the hell all the jobs and opportunities went.

    Ageism Steve Hulett 2009

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