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  • We may have spent even longer in Iraq if Hans Blix had been looking for some WKD in tee-total Iraq and I daresay President Obama's popularity would be altered if he'd just celebrated his first 100 jays.

    Friday Dog Love Jeff 2009

  • I'm sure said friend would be either horrified or impressed to learn that that night has not only confirmed my suspicions that lesbianism is the way forward, but also that it prompted me to go tee-total for a while.

    geekchic-uk Diary Entry geekchic-uk 2009

  • "We sprayed Headline on every acre of corn and the corn's actually standing there waiting on us, but some of my neighbors 'corn that don't have Headline on it and it looks like a tee-total wreck to me."

    AgWired 2009

  • She is said to have already drawn up plans which will see pubs and hotels go tee-total in a bid to curb Britain's ever growing alcohol dependency problem.

    Exclusive: Patricia Hewitt to Ban Alcohol in Pubs & Hotels 2006

  • It's nights like this that I regret neing tee-total!

    Que Sera Sera... 2006

  • It is worth pointing out that, at the time it was taken, George was tee-total.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Kerron Cross 2005

  • This eloquent address was followed by immense cheering and a shower of sherry bottoms, which the gentlemen in their "entusymusy" scattered around them as Hesperus is reported to dispense his tee-total drops.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

  • I must again solemnly express my conviction that we are standing on a _slumbering_ VOLCANO; the thoughtless and unobservant may suppose not; probably because in the present tee-total state of society they see nothing of the CRATER.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

  • Mahomedan faith, which as a tee-total religion is, so far, the most suitable one for a tropical race; it has also to be remembered that he inhabits tropical countries, where the white man cannot perform out-door labour and appears only as a Government Official, a merchant or a planter.

    British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884

  • Cleobulus, praising "moderation in all things," would glorify a moral warning of universal application, as to pleasures, riches, and rank; or especially perhaps as preferring true temperance before its modern tee-total false pretences; or lauding some

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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