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  • A fellow with a head as balloonish as the one we see here needs to clothe himself with an eye to a thinning effect.

    I Did Not Make This Up PeaceBang 2006

  • He wore a balloonish suit of purple, strangely scalloped at pocket and cuff, and more strangely decorated with lines of small parasite buttons, in color blue, obviously buttons of leisure.

    Seventeen 1915

  • He wore a balloonish suit of purple, strangely scalloped at pocket and cuff, and more strangely decorated with lines of small parasite buttons, in color blue, obviously buttons of leisure.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • It is not the commercialism that this ghost minds, but the stretching of Christmas: its thinness, etiolation, extension, its striae and balloonish surface sheen through which you can poke a finger, to find nothing but a void behind.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Christopher Howse 2011

  • He was especially intrigued about one lingering mystery associated with the signs, which were each 49 feet tall and 60 feet wide, with balloonish, aspirin-shaped mini-signs for each of the four key words.

    Bakersfield.com Latest news 2010

  • The most successful characters are the most exaggerated ones — Scrooge, say, or the balloonish Fezziwigs.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • The most successful characters are the most exaggerated ones - Scrooge, say, or the balloonish Fezziwigs.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

  • Anything besides a cutesy balloonish font would make us happy. contact) @ 15: 41: 24 on Feb 22, 2009 contact) @ 09: 56: 32 on Feb 22, 2009

    TrekWeb - Browse, Bicker, and Boldly Go (Star Trek) 2009

  • Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning, "said neighbor Lisa Eklund.

    Statesman - AP Sports 2009

  • Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning, "said neighbor Lisa Eklund.

    Pat Dollard | Young Americans 2009

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