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When we stand, we burn more calories, engage more muscle, and can whittle the circumference of our waists from a fat eunuch's to the size of a greyhound's.
E. Jean Carroll: 25 Things Every Woman Should Know E. Jean Carroll 2010
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His arms, so long they gave him a greyhound's grace even though he was built like the side of a house....
A Tough Guy's Tough Road to the Screen Steve Oney 2012
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When we stand, we burn more calories, engage more muscle, and can whittle the circumference of our waists from a fat eunuch's to the size of a greyhound's.
E. Jean Carroll: 25 Things Every Woman Should Know E. Jean Carroll 2010
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When we stand, we burn more calories, engage more muscle, and can whittle the circumference of our waists from a fat eunuch's to the size of a greyhound's.
E. Jean Carroll: 25 Things Every Woman Should Know E. Jean Carroll 2010
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When we stand, we burn more calories, engage more muscle, and can whittle the circumference of our waists from a fat eunuch's to the size of a greyhound's.
E. Jean Carroll: 25 Things Every Woman Should Know E. Jean Carroll 2010
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It was a splendid magnesium-frame bicycle, light as a puff; a silver skeleton with a seat like a greyhound's muzzle.
LIGHT FINGERS 2009
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He had the kind of greyhound's body that would never show fat.
Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007
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His hunched form was rock solid, his expression hyper as a greyhound's, his bunched muscles making him look weirdly like a gar - goyle.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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The little head with its long moustaches fixed its narrow eyes upon them from afar, its nostrils snuffing the air like a greyhound's, and then disappeared like an antelope on its owner perceiving that the Cossacks were thirteen strong.
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Sperver, sometimes with his nose in the air and his red moustache floating in the wind, sometimes with his grey eyes intently following the track, reminded me of those famous Cossacks that I had seen pass through Germany when I was a boy; and his tall, lanky horse, muscular and full-maned, its body as slender as a greyhound's, completed the illusion.
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian
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