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Did he perform a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death or did he have a field test kit to determine lead levels in the swan's body?
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Did he perform a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death or did he have a field test kit to determine lead levels in the swan's body?
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Did he perform a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death or did he have a field test kit to determine lead levels in the swan's body?
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Madison Square Garden crowd, there you are, frozen five feet from wastebasket, with a swan's neck of finishing wrist, just like Coach taught back in high school.
Waterston Makes A Mental Note To Sack The Bailiff Dennis Mahagin 2011
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Did he perform a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death or did he have a field test kit to determine lead levels in the swan's body?
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A burial of a small child from the stone age, the tiny skeleton lying on a swan's wing.
Contact Fresca 2010
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Once it was thought they paired for life and were regarded as symbols of faithfulness ? often a swan's feather was sewn into a husband's pillow to secure fidelity.
Country diary: The Burren, Ireland Sarah Poyntz 2010
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His grace is not the swan's, but his unquiet pupil, boring into the gloom, interprets the secret book of the nocturnal still. —
Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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We had all seen this wondrous young dancer as Odette in Balanchine's "Swan Lake" with those honed legs like steel arrows, delicate weapons of heartbreaking beauty, and a decisive widow's peak on her fragile open face, eerily echoing a real swan's brow.
Darci Kistler Exits the Stage Toni Bentley 2010
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Even in a week of celebrity news that boggles the mind, not least the revelation that Patsy Kensit follows a "down to earth" skincare regime involving a skin scrub containing crushed diamonds – thus raising the prospect that the rest of her "down-to-earth" ablutions include regularly bathing in newborn babies' tears and wiping her bum on a swan's neck – one story boggles it a bit more vigorously than the rest.
Tana Ramsay turns to Victoria Beckham for spiritual guidance Alexis Petridis 2010
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