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  • She has already been fishing while in her moma's belly at 7.5 months we went walleye fishing and moma caught a few dandy's!

    biggest high light of 2009 season 2010

  • She has already been fishing while in her moma's belly at 7.5 months we went walleye fishing and moma caught a few dandy's!

    biggest high light of 2009 season 2010

  • Bespoke Stripe, their 2003 collaboration with clothing designer Paul Smith, offered a dandy's take on the pinstripe.

    Highly Suitable Fabric Stephen Treffinger 2011

  • England have changed their kit so frequently in the recent past that it barely makes the news when the latest version is unveiled with a barrage of baffling pronouncements about technological improvements designed to keep its wearers smelling like a dandy's nosegay.

    No point getting shirty over England's new-look kit 2010

  • The dandy's little joke lay in suggesting that they should have called themselves Eumenides ( "the good-natured ones"), the name ironically applied by the Greeks to the Furies.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Robert Townsend Jr., for example, in a speech to the Convention of Mechanics, Farmers and Workingmen, called for a society where "a dirty shirt acquired by toil" was "held more honorable than the dandy's ruffle."

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • Although these women's attempt to use materiality to translate visual expression into a more powerful discourse was more innovative in its ends than the dandy's, the means was too aligned with femininity and consumption to be truly freeing.

    Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006

  • For those of you that get juiced by stats, Candace Sepulis posted these dandy's on her MySpace along with a very good letter of outrage to the Dudes of the Environment.

    Aussiejourno’s Weekly Blog Awards 2007

  • Adam guessed the thugs were in the dandy's employ.

    One Red Rose Garwood, Julie 1997

  • The dandy's little joke lay in suggesting that they should have called themselves Eumenides ( "the good-natured ones"), the name ironically applied by the Greeks to the Furies.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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