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Laurie: Swaggering is actually forbidden on the set.
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"My good friend, there is -- is much cheerfulness in thy music, for which reason this young person and I will trouble you to play us that sustaining psalm -- I mean that blessed air called the Swaggering Jig, which is really a consoling planxtic -- come, Susanna."
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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Swaggering, drunken kids with Greek letters adorning their shirts.
365 tomorrows » Roi R. Czechvala : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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* Swaggering border cop considering run for Senate?
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2011
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Swaggering alongside him is Mahmoud, who says he is 14, and has been on the streets six years since his father's beatings drove him from home.
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Swaggering, drunken kids with Greek letters adorning their shirts.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Swaggering and hostile, the Italians announce their intent: We're spreadin 'polio ....
Philip Roth's "Nemesis," reviewed by Roxana Robinson Roxana Robinson 2010
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Swaggering before, saying "Blair made me do it" now. pete-s
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Swaggering long-haired team-mate bothering Newcastle striker Andy Carroll is English.
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Swaggering sci-fi writer James Tiptree Jr. was actually McLean resident Alice B. Sheldon, a psychologist who adopted the pseudonym in the '60s and' 70s to maintain both her confidence and the separation between her public and private lives (the fake name was born out of a shopping trip to a Giant in Northern Virginia, where she saw a jar of Tiptree marmalade).
Is the pen name mightier than the sword, or just a modern writer's flimsy foil? Tawny Tipples* 2010
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