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Examples
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I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever'body on Bear Creek!
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I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever'body on Bear Creek!
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Guh, speech impediments creep me out more than midgets and harelips combined.
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Sometimes I think we're back in the middle ages, with those born with harelips condemned as the "spawn of satan".
Archive 2007-07-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples in this kind, as moles, warts, scars, harelips, monsters, especially caused in their children by force of a depraved phantasy in them: Ipsam speciem quam animo effigiat, faetui inducit: She imprints that stamp upon her child which she [1610] conceives unto herself.
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As my beloved granny used to say, "If it harelips every mule in Texas!"
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The most common birth defects connected to loud noise are harelips, cleft palates and spinal defects.
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It must extend itself to cover horrors—ostomies and scars and flipper-hands and harelips and agenesis of the eyeballs—and it rises to every miserable occasion of the sick body.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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Sometimes I think we're back in the middle ages, with those born with harelips condemned as the "spawn of satan".
Christian Charity Zoe Brain 2007
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There is the Fan Mail Department of the great studio, into which harelips from Minnesota, lonely cowboys from Montana, crazy adolescent girls from Sweden and other far-off places pour their Dreams, dutifully answered with autographed photos of the stars deposited into the mails by lonely working-girls in Hollywood.
New Novels Decter, Midge 1963
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