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_stolo_, or great flagship (_capitanea galea_) of Malta in her pomp and dignity and lordliness, as she rides the seas to the rhythmical beat of her many oars, or "easies" with every blade suspended motionless above the waves like the wings of a poised falcon.
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole
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It is more painful in the morning when your foot first hits the floor and as the plantar fascia tissue stretches during the day the pain easies.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Get in Athletic Position... Balls on the Ground! Dr. Steve Rosenberg 2011
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We sometimes use a metal ring right on the grill to make perfect looking “over easies”.
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We get the easies European side and the easiest side in the African and South American pots.
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One tunnel was said to have extended under the dividing railway tracks so that men from the white side of town could reach Chinatown speak-easies undetected.
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Despite the smoking ban – because of it, actually – Philadelphia now has "smoke-easies," a play on "speakeasies" that came to us with the Prohibition of alcohol.
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We don't want to give up any easies around the basket.
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Despite the smoking ban – because of it, actually – Philadelphia now has "smoke-easies," a play on "speakeasies" that came to us with the Prohibition of alcohol.
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Nurtured in the '30s and' 40s, as a synthesis of the accordion-driven Mexican conjunto and the North American big-band sound, the music took root in the cantinas and speak-easies of south Texas.
Born On The Border 2008
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KING: Then believe it or not, that's not the easies way for an illegal to get into the United States.
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