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Garfield's book is a tale of serifs and sans serifs, which is to say it's a tale of tails -- letters that have appendages poking out from the basic lines and sometimes curling away from them as differentiated from tail-less letters.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Simon Garfield's Enthralling Just My Type, Christopher Johnson's Less Than Enthralling Microstyle David Finkle 2011
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It's the U.S. which is developing a 22-ton tail-less drone 20 times larger than a Predator that can fly at Mach 7 and (theoretically) land on the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier.
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Almost tail-less as we apes are, it is hard for us to imagine what it must be like to be a spider monkey, whose tail dominates the entire spinal column.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Almost tail-less as we apes are, it is hard for us to imagine what it must be like to be a spider monkey, whose tail dominates the entire spinal column.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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June 17, 2009 at 1:30 am rating of twelbity-five for teh tail-less butt wiggle.
Video: Kitteh Team-Up - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Stepping over the open graves of the former monks (shaped like oblong bodies), one enters a rounded enclosure with bright frescos of what are called "Maltese crosses" (painted in red ochre) as well as frescos of Jesus Christ and George spearing a tail-less dragon.
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Mr. Potter returned home and the tail-less jacket caught on with other high-society locals.
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King, thou orderest us to bring to thy presence the man who wrote these lines; now the truth is that he who wrote them is not of the sons of Adam,237 but an ape, a tail-less baboon, belonging to the ship captain.
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At this he smiled and the folk came round him, flambeaux in hand like the eyeball round the pupil, while the Gobbo bridegroom was left sitting alone much like a tail-less baboon; for every time they lighted a candle for him it went out willy-nilly, so he was left in darkness and silence and looking at naught but himself.
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While Max and the tail-less lizard were wrestling outside, I picked up the tail with the paper towels.
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