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Kwaque's increasing restlessness at night, due to the swelling under his right arm-pit, had began to wake Daughtry up.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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From the twisted fingers, which was the anaesthetic form, produced by nerve-disintegration, to the corrugated lion forehead (again anaesthetic), his eyes flashed to the swelling under the right arm-pit and his brain diagnosed it as the tubercular form.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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While watching by the bank he got into the habit of taking his mitten off and thrusting the hand inside his shirt so as to rest the thumb in the warmth of his arm-pit.
FINIS 2010
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A score of retorts, all deliciously inadvisable, tickled my tongue, so I said nothing, contenting myself with holding on with my left hand while I nursed my stinging right hand under my arm-pit.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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Carefully, slowly, through long minutes, he worked the bare hand inside his blankets, up under his fur PARKA, through the chest openings of his shirts, and into the slightly warm hollow of his left arm-pit.
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As he straightened his coat I saw with alarm that he had a revolver in his arm-pit and a scalping-knife in an embroidered scabbard thrust in his pants waistband.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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South Bend is the arm-pit of America/east Chicago and they've never had voters all-out like they did on Tuesday for their black candidate! '
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He put his pistol back in his arm-pit and came over to me.
Fiancée 2010
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It's a charming mix of molded cheese, patchouli, sandalwood and unwashed arm-pit.
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Or is this just the same-old same-old, if you disagree with me you must not have your own thoughts arm-pit deep BS I'm accustomed to hearing from people who pretend to respect women but don't?
"Like Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' in reverse, the giant, hideous beetle that was the GOP has suddenly been reborn as a vigorous youth...." Ann Althouse 2008
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