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  • Terriers are often nice, and I also like runtish Labs.

    Best in show | clusterflock 2009

  • They may have thought that he was a weasely-faced runtish little thing, who tries to disguise his physical limitations, by keeping his nose in the air, but put down their distate simply to a natural aversion to him.

    Lord Levy Oozes Hypocrisy 2007

  • Ranunculus was a runtish, almost half-formed creature, with a flat, round face at the end of a feeble body, who well deserved his nickname of “Tadpole.”

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Ranunculus was a runtish, almost half-formed creature, with a flat, round face at the end of a feeble body, who well deserved his nickname of “Tadpole.”

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Wind came in the windows, and the pages of dead Balis fluttered on the table and a few of them curled back and half stood so that they caught the faint window light through their backsides and glowed like runtish ghosts come haunting.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Wind came in the windows, and the pages of dead Balis fluttered on the table and a few of them curled back and half stood so that they caught the faint window light through their backsides and glowed like runtish ghosts come haunting.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • He was sort of runtish until he had an appendicitis operation.

    Oral History Interview with Jonathan Worth Daniels, March 9-11, 1977. Interview A-0313. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1977

  • MacShane said that if this were to dip below 2 per cent Britain would be left as a "runtish anaemic" military power along with many other European nations.

    Epolitix News 2010

  • MacShane said that if this were to dip below 2 per cent Britain would be left as a "runtish anaemic" military power along with many other European nations.

    Epolitix News 2010

  • MacShane said that if this were to dip below 2 per cent Britain would be left as a "runtish anaemic" military power along with many other European nations.

    UkPoliBlog: Composite feed 2010

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