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  • He proceeded to unpin his mistress, did her frontways and backways and satisfied her as best he could.

    How to Add Spice to Your Content 2009

  • The building is shaped like a U that's been pushed over frontways with its legs pointing towards the FDR.

    Manhattan scusteister 2007

  • “You do like the bull does with the heifer, only frontways, if you want to.”

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • “You do like the bull does with the heifer, only frontways, if you want to.”

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

  • "You do like the bull does with the heifer, only frontways, if you want to."

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • "You do like the bull does with the heifer, only frontways, if you want to."

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • The minimum extension of the wave system sideways and frontways can be found from the sharpness of the lines.

    G.P. Thomson - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • One end of the string is fixed by a clip on the connecting rod, the other end anywhere to keep the string tight, so that by the movement of the steam entering the cylinder at either end, and the connecting rod working backwards and forwards, the small cylinder is made to turn frontways and backways; and within the small cylinder is another cylinder very much smaller; it has

    The Stoker's Catechism W. J. Connor

  • He put His two thumbs side by side, frontways, and cupped his hands together.

    The Mystery Of The Burnt Cottage Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1943

  • This is a frontways view of Bunyip Bluegum and his Uncle Wattleberry.

    The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1924

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