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Examples
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Serefina stared up at her, old-lady wisdom in her little-girl eyes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Serefina stared up at her, old-lady wisdom in her little-girl eyes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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You yank it out, swing it around, and ram it through a busted pair of old-lady shades and into its eye.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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You yank it out, swing it around, and ram it through a busted pair of old-lady shades and into its eye.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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Serefina stared up at her, old-lady wisdom in her little-girl eyes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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She might have issued some secret old-lady signal, or perhaps a clandestine old-lady phone call had already taken place, because not long after that, Aunt Khadija came back from the kitchen with little silver bowls brimming with the pudding of fertility and life.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh.
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This was a certain kind of old-lady arrogance I'd never experienced.
The White-Haired 'Terrorist' in Seat 8B Demetri Martin 2011
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She might have issued some secret old-lady signal, or perhaps a clandestine old-lady phone call had already taken place, because not long after that, Aunt Khadija came back from the kitchen with little silver bowls brimming with the pudding of fertility and life.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh.
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