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  • But somehow that only makes it more lovely, like Cinderella at the ball, racing the stroke of midnight and ekeing every last morsel of glory from the dance.

    2008 October « Becca’s Byline 2008

  • But somehow that only makes it more lovely, like Cinderella at the ball, racing the stroke of midnight and ekeing every last morsel of glory from the dance.

    The Times They Are A’Changin’ 2008

  • She might have a fighting chance of ekeing out a bare majority in FL, notwithstanding Jacksonville, Orlando, Tallahassee, Gainesville, and West Palm ... but you can't possibly believe that she is going to take MI, do you?

    Penn: Pennsylvania Will Show That Obama "Really Can't Win The General Election" 2009

  • You guys seem to want to win by ekeing out a victory on a small margin and keeping our party a minority party (the Repubs are also a minority party).

    Video: Tensions Finally Boil Over Between Hillary And Obama 2009

  • The red-staters who are most solidly behind Bush, and are apparently most afraid, are ekeing out livings in what looks like wasteland to the rest of us and bravo to them!

    "Wait, Aren't You Scared?" Rogers 2006

  • It's like Karen's got this pile of things for me that she's ekeing onto my desk like japanese water torture.

    cbrimble Diary Entry cbrimble 2006

  • I could those things in my sleep, and often did, a somnambulist ekeing out a living.

    Archive 2003-04-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • I could those things in my sleep, and often did, a somnambulist ekeing out a living.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • It may be hundreds of years old but it has new life and it's not going to go away by ekeing out a win in the electoral college.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • Hard and cruel as it may seem, it was planned that we should keep them alive, ekeing out their fodder until

    South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

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