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  • Subsisting on cookies and crackers, they spent their days knocking on doors, cheering at rallies and waving signs at intersections.

    As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas Sandhya Somashekhar 2010

  • Subsisting on handouts and the begrudging charity of the village's wealthy merchants.

    The Alarm Harris Tobias 2011

  • Subsisting on boiled saddle leather, the men were grumbling of mutiny.

    Escaping The Rainforest Gerard Helferich 2011

  • Subsisting on scratch and scrap, nourishing the hungry, hens renewing each day with huevos, roosters 'noisy cacophony breaking dawn's silence, cockerels jockeying for position, chickens signal home and hearth.

    Cockfighting - Chicken Soup For The Soul 2007

  • Subsisting on scratch and scrap, nourishing the hungry, hens renewing each day with huevos, roosters 'noisy cacophony breaking dawn's silence, cockerels jockeying for position, chickens signal home and hearth.

    Cockfighting - Chicken Soup For The Soul 2007

  • Subsisting on a diet of yellow rice and red beans, sleeping in tents, transporting themselves by donkey, and washing in a cold mountain stream, they joined a group of Peace Corps volunteers in an effort to resuscitate the town and its 20,000-plus inhabitants.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • Subsisting on a diet of yellow rice and red beans, sleeping in tents, transporting themselves by donkey, and washing in a cold mountain stream, they joined a group of Peace Corps volunteers in an effort to resuscitate the town and its 20,000-plus inhabitants.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • Subsisting on protein bars and whatever they could catch, his sticklike comrades had become the norm.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • Subsisting on protein bars and whatever they could catch, his sticklike comrades had become the norm.

    Deeper Jeff Long 2007

  • Subsisting well under the HBO-level strata, but mining that rock for all it was worth, were the one-nighter booking agents.

    Archive 2006-12-17 Rogers 2006

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