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  • Teddy-bear called me each of the last three days, and each time we've ended up talking for like 3 hours.

    JamieAndTeddy.com Dennis 2007

  • Teddy-bear called me each of the last three days, and each time we've ended up talking for like 3 hours.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Dennis 2007

  • Ruben + Teddy-bear crooner wins Fox karaoke contest.

    Enron Economics Edition 2007

  • Teddy-bear growls and dances, and the owner has but to wind them up, which is very poor amusement.

    The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart

  • The Teddy-bear, if he has anything to impart, suggests his own methods of life and defence, and the Golliwog, far worse -- limp, hideous, without one characteristic grace, or spark of humour -- suggests the last extremity of what is embodied in the expression "letting oneself go."

    The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart

  • And somewhere in the bottom of the sleigh one was turned into a cute little Teddy-bear.

    The Goblins' Christmas Elizabeth Anderson

  • The next moment Clarence had made his spring; the gilded youths had shredded away like a mist, and he was leaning towards her, opening negotiations for the purchase of a yellow Teddy-bear at sixteen times its face value.

    The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

  • He was sleeping now, his head on his right arm, a sterilized Teddy-bear clutched firmly in his other hand, with the concentration of one engaged upon a feat at which he is an expert.

    The Coming of Bill 1928

  • Her purple pyjamas clothed her with an ampleness that hid the lines of her body; she looked like some large, comfortable, unjointed toy, a sort of Teddy-bear -- but

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • Over the second Teddy-bear they became friendly, over the third intimate.

    The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

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