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  • The page was thumbed and limp with overhandling, and there I read: — 'So sweet it is to stand but just apart,

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • We decided that no matter what anyone said or did to pull us apart,

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • A mum, a dad, and a teenage boy Stand together, yet apart,

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • Hunching up his shoulders and stretching his fingers wide apart,

    The Wife 2004

  • But it must not be forgotten that, politics apart,

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • Is heard on the water, as they were, the proud and apart,

    Collected Poems William Butler 2002

  • You can steal all our futures and tear them apart,

    You Can't Stop The Sun 2000

  • Harry knew perfectly well that Dudley only put up with Aunt Marge's hugs because he was well paid for it, and sure enough, when they broke apart,

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

  • * The challenge of rebuilding the families whose very lives and homes have been torn apart,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • In an actual situation of that sort, the man would automatically shift his muscular effort to counteract the force, spread his legs wider apart,

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

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