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  • Hanging from the back of the chair, the cups of her brassiere pointed straight out into the room like headlights.

    Excerpt: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake 2010

  • Hanging from the dome's ceiling is a remnant from the Twins 'history: a banner that features depictions of Kirby Puckett, Kent Hrbek, Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva.

    Take Me In to the Ballgame Mike Sielski 2010

  • Hanging is too good for them, the punishment is over too quick, nothing these thugs say can ever justify the fact they took the life (after a period of ‘terroring’) of anothe person

    Curious Men With Dangerous Ideas (again) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Hanging is almost instantaneous, and any pain is gone before the felon realizes it is there.

    Stromata Blog: 2006

  • Hanging is almost instantaneous, and any pain is gone before the felon realizes it is there.

    A Corrupt Sense of Pity 2006

  • Hanging from the hook on the back of the door are several changes of underwear.

    Excerpt: Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg 2002

  • Hanging is a barbarous, inefficient way of killing anybody, and at least one fact about itquite widely known, I believeis so obscene as to be almost unprintable.

    As I Please 1946

  • Hanging from the ceiling there was a heavy glass chandelier on which the dust was so thick that it was like fur.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • Hanging from the cantle strings was a wild turkey she had shot.

    A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • The department is urging residents to participate in National Hanging Out Day on Sunday by using a clothesline or drying rack instead of their electric clothes dryers.

    WCAX - Local News 2009

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