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  • Then the lights started cracking like atomics and the boot or finger-nail or, as it might be, a bit of dirt on your trouser-bottom turned into a big big big mesto, bigger than the whole world, and you were just going to get introduced to old Bog or God when it was all over.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • And you were sort of hypnotized by your boot or shoe or a finger-nail as it might be, and at the same time you were sort of picked up by the old scruff and shook like you might be a cat.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care, and you waited until your boot or finger-nail got yellow, then yellower and yellower all the time.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Then, as if he was like danc - ing, he stamped on my nogas, left, right, then he gave me a finger-nail flick on the nose that hurt like bezoomny and brought the old tears to my glazzies then he twisted at my left ooko like it was a radio dial.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • "You can go into finger-nail biting mode, in terms of making a life plan and knowing that you've made a decision and know you need to move away from this particular amount of space," Ms. Alden says.

    Chicago Auction 2010

  • Two days ago, a child was bitten by a goat and his finger-nail was torn clean off.

    Notes on the State Fair. Angry Professor 2009

  • By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse from the Jewry of the Ghetto.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • To clean the (up to 3) rollers inside the mouse, either use the edge of a finger-nail tip (carefully, of course), or a cotton-swab as used to clean your ears.

    How to clean an old mouse | Sync Blog 2008

  • Carefully flick the seeds off in the spring with your finger-nail and plant.

    The tomato revisted 2006

  • Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties, — Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau.

    Les Miserables 2008

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