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Extensive airbrushing and cropping involved in the photo-editing process even leads to the occasional ghastly accident: the mysterious hand grasping AnnaLynne McCord's shoulder as she ostensibly strolled the beach in solitude; L'Oreal elongating Penelope Cruz's neck to resemble that of an ostrich's to promote skin care products in 2009.
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Real healthcare reform held up by one independent senator and all Republicans who would rather stick together as ostrich's with their heads in the sand instead of working for everyday American's to provide decent and affordable healthcare for all American's.
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I assume, people find the ostrich's anatomy ideal for such behavior and simply invented this biological trait.
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The ostrich's tail displays an occasional nervous twitch – but there is no sign to date of the lion rising to the occasion.
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You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest.
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My way of coping with loss is basically the same as an ostrich's response to fear.
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The more common method is to catch them with a running noose, or little lazo, made of the stem of an ostrich's feather, fastened to the end of a long stick.
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They had killed a puma, and had found an ostrich's nest with twenty-seven eggs in it.
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He knew them to be the wife and sister-in-law of the major's son, hunting for ostrich's eggs.
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He knew them to be the wife and sister-in-law of the major's son, hunting for ostrich's eggs.
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