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  • (The potential (P) for the outcome (B = big-looking butt) is detailed in the quantum koan of Schrodinger's Cat's Half-Fat Cat Ass.)

    Too Fast to be Fat 2010

  • When I'm thrifting, I'll try on anything for the top that is 14-18 or XL, as well as big-looking larges.

    Thrifting while plus-sized: a primer (What if No One's Watching?) 2008

  • 'And as if to demonstrate the point, he drew back the lapel of his dirty Paul Smith jacket and revealed the butt of quite a big-looking gun nestling in his armpit.

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • He was a big-looking man in the saddle and he showed himself to the greatest advantage by riding rigidly erect with his head thrown a little back, so that the loose brim of his sombrero was continually in play about his face.

    Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

  • "Here's a big-looking fellow whose boots will just fit me," he said, stooping and seizing the scout's leg.

    In the Track of the Troops 1859

  • "Why, the big-looking fellow with the white face, now in the parlour."

    Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2 1847

  • There were line-of-battle ships, and frigates, and corvettes, and huge Indiamen as big-looking as many line-of-battle ships, and large transports, and numberless merchantmen -- ships and barques, and brigs and schooners; but as to what the _Barbara_ was like

    James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • At other points during the sacking he poked fun at the "Southern" accent he'd heard at a small neighborhood market named "O'Rourke's", and later he gave one of his troops a noogie for carting away a baby grand piano: "That's a big-looking cow you've got there, son, but it don't look too healthy!"

    Our Strange World bcotx@yahoo.com 2010

  • At other points during the sacking he poked fun at the "Southern" accent he'd heard at a small neighborhood market named "O'Rourke's", and later he gave one of his troops a noogie for carting away a baby grand piano: "That's a big-looking cow you've got there, son, but it don't look too healthy!"

    Our Strange World bcotx@yahoo.com 2010

  • At other points during the sacking he poked fun at the "Southern" accent he'd heard at a small neighborhood market named "O'Rourke's", and later he gave one of his troops a noogie for carting away a baby grand piano: "That's a big-looking cow you've got there, son, but it don't look too healthy!"

    Our Strange World bcotx@yahoo.com 2010

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