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  • Grizzled 'sour-dough boys,' day-laborers at the mines but proud of their degree, either patronized the spruce-looking tenderfeet and lied eloquently - the

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • Grizzled 'sour-dough boys,' day-laborers at the mines but proud of their degree, either patronized the spruce-looking tenderfeet and lied eloquently - the

    The Wife of a King 2010

  • Grizzled old-timers of Forty Mile and Circle City, sour doughs with leathern jaws and bean-calloused stomachs, called up dream memories of chickens and green things at mention of his name.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • •Who's new: Grizzled offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye prefers a more basic approach than that of his predecessor, Mike Martz, and that could help the quarterbacks.

    Singletary's intensity still there; 49ers' players left with 'chills' 2009

  • At least the new fella finally gave Mikko the C before Bruno and The Grizzled Veteran took him out behind our beautiful palace of hockey for a come to Jesus chat.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • Grizzled, greasy, and smelling permanently of Skoal chewing tobacco, Hap Borchard took care of all manner of odd jobs for Buford locals and the long-established summer people.

    And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010

  • My husband (Grizzled) often says that you pretty much have all of the life tools you'll need by 12, you just slightly hone them.

    Hey there! Hi there! Ho there! You're as welcome as can be! 2008

  • He shows me some Clausson Grizzled pigeons, a breed so tough “you throw one up into a hurricane, they come home.”

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Grizzled, shorn of status, and eager to repair severed family ties, Gekko is shocked to find that the greed he once celebrated now runs rampant and has become institutionalized.

    Enron on Broadway: $how Business 2010

  • Grizzled pols like Hillary Clinton or her husband would laugh off such an attempt; Obama may still be innocent enough to be shaken by it.

    Rhetorical Questions 2008

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