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  • When I'd woken up back on shore, my arm was bleeding, some of the elbow's skin torn off, and I couldn't tell my father that night what had happened, that the dog that had saved me had also bitten off a part of me.

    The Dog by the River 2009

  • When I'd woken up back on shore, my arm was bleeding, some of the elbow's skin torn off, and I couldn't tell my father that night what had happened, that the dog that had saved me had also bitten off a part of me.

    The Dog by the River 2009

  • "The elbow's an ongoing management thing, it's feeling good at the moment and hopefully it stays that way."

    Rankings not an issue for Smith 2009

  • Again, the elbow's not allowing him to do that, Goetski said.

    USATODAY.com - Roundup: Krajicek wilts, withdraws from Wimbledon 2003

  • But she b-- the last years of Frost's life, from 1938 until his death in '63, Kay was never more than elbow's length from Robert Frost, as far as I could tell.

    Robert Frost: A Life 1999

  • Morning seems to him "a night with a sun added"; neither dew nor freshness can he feel; nothing is altered with this dawn -- the plant he bruised in getting through the lattice last night droops as it did then, and still there shows his elbow's mark on the dusty sill.

    Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

  • He stood an elbow's length from me and kicked moccasined heels against the floor in the way of light-headed lads.

    Lords of the North 1903

  • Absurd hats, with veils flying behind; absurd bonnets, fitting close to the head, and spotted; absurd coiffures that nearly lay on the nape; absurd, clumsy sleeves; absurd waists, almost above the elbow's level; absurd scolloped jackets!

    The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Trevennack caught it in his horror and awe -- caught it bodily by the horns -- for horned it seemed to be, as well as cloven-footed -- and by sheer force of arm held it off from him an elbow's length one minute.

    Michael's Crag Grant Allen 1873

  • Your elbow's messed up already, so what the hell,'' joked Rivers.

    SI.com 2011

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