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  • True, the weight room attracts a particular type, so the sample may be skewed, but the fact that anyone after a few stints with the dumb-bells can define their deltoids, transform their trapezoids and puff the biceps into hillocks on the arm means that, only so many reps away, a different body awaits.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • True, the weight room attracts a particular type, so the sample may be skewed, but the fact that anyone after a few stints with the dumb-bells can define their deltoids, transform their trapezoids and puff the biceps into hillocks on the arm means that, only so many reps away, a different body awaits.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Can one branch become weaker with a dumb-bell or groiup of dumb-bells, at their head?

    After Ginsburg? "A woman? It seems certain. It’s inconceivable that the Court could be all-male...." Ann Althouse 2009

  • If he is still living and not married, he is, most likely, unchanged to this day; he carves and carpenters and uses dumb-bells, and is as much a lady-killer as ever, and sketches Napoleon in a blue uniform in the albums of his lady friends.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • Choosing to presume that the conference was over, he went back to the room in which he had kept his dumb-bells; and for a minute or two went to work at his favourite exercise.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • But he soon put the dumb-bells down, and began to prepare himself for his work.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • The doctor had been standing during the latter part of this conversation, but now he began to walk about, still holding the two bones like a pair of dumb-bells.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • He found his friend standing in the middle of the room, without coat and waistcoat, with a pair of dumb-bells in his hands.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • He had been collecting the heads of his speech while Mr Low had been talking to him, and refreshing his quotations in the presence of Lord Chiltern and the dumb-bells.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • He bathed and used dumb-bells, and kept himself fit.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

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