fussed

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  • There had been imaginative things done to her breasts, her nose, her hands, her hair, all of which had given her a precious, fussed-over beauty of the sort desired by anybody who courts fame above all things. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • Beaumont is doing double overtime to build up savings; we're counting on my paycheck up to the 30th or 32nd week Angela dithered and fussed, while holding her plump arms close to her thick body as if bound at the elbows by ropes. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
  • If the baby fussed, Raven swooped down, smothering her cries with a tit. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
  • He was one of those men with a horror of being fussed, was he? —  Traitor's Purse - Margery Allingham - Campion 11
  • When Yum Yum fussed, she could work industriously and stub-bornly for an hour without any apparent purpose and without results. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_16_The_Cat_Who_Came_To_Breakfast
 

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