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  • Kennan, a bowline around his body under his arm-pits, lowered by a couple of seamen down the generous freeboard of the Ariel, who gathered in by the nape of the neck the smooth-coated Irish terrier that, treading water perpendicularly, had no eyes for him so eagerly did he gaze at the line of faces along the rail in quest of the one face.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Eight of them Agno sucked raw, and two of them he tucked whole into his arm-pits to take back to his house of the devil devils.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • As she took the cover off a second frying pan and stirred the savory contents with a kitchen knife, he came behind her, passed his arms under her arm-pits with down-drooping hands upon her breasts, and bent his head over her shoulder till cheek touched cheek.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • I thought eight hundred would answer for me, and was about to say so when Marlette partly proved his statement by accidentally crushing through and disappearing to his arm-pits.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • I thought eight hundred would answer for me, and was about to say so when Marlette partly proved his statement by accidentally crushing through and disappearing to his arm-pits.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Apparently there are still a handful of arm-pits who support this clown and his cabinet as leaders of this country!

    Must Watch: Oliver Stone's W. Teaser Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • When I hear someone described as an "activist", I automatically picture a women with hairy arm-pits and dreadlocks.

    And the McCain campaign is not giving Obama a pass on the Lipsticked Pig remark. Ann Althouse 2008

  • When I hear someone described as an "activist", I automatically picture a women with hairy arm-pits and dreadlocks.

    And the McCain campaign is not giving Obama a pass on the Lipsticked Pig remark. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Men I have said remove the pubes by shaving, and pluck the hair of the arm-pits, one of the vestiges of pre-Adamite man.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he had now reached.

    Les Miserables 2008

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