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  • The Morriseys were a huge breed, and there were many strapping great sons and uncles, heavy-booted, big-fisted, rough - voiced.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • As we trudge heavy-booted and drill-wielding down the dilapidated halls of Rapture, everything feels familiar – just as we left it; all right with the world – except, of course, for the one thing that made the original BioShock so damn powerful – that overwhelming sense of discovery.

    If You Liked BioShock | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • A bright and laughing maze for my heavy-booted lover

    Amy Lowell greenintegerblog 2008

  • One of the COs had just come through, doing his security sweep—a heavy-booted run past the cells—when Peter heard it:

    Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

  • Presumably flabbergasted that hard-hatted, heavy-booted artisans should entertain cultural reference points that extended beyond watching Big Brother, Herrin - a respected author and archaeologist - tried to sum up 1,000 years in 10 minutes off the cuff.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • One of the COs had just come through, doing his security sweep-a heavy-booted run past the cells-when Peter heard it:

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

  • Presumably flabbergasted that hard-hatted, heavy-booted artisans should entertain cultural reference points that extended beyond watching Big Brother, Herrin - a respected author and archaeologist - tried to sum up 1,000 years in 10 minutes off the cuff.

    Reviews of Byzantium: The Surprosing Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin 2007

  • One of the COs had just come through, doing his security sweep—a heavy-booted run past the cells—when Peter heard it:

    Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

  • As for Saddam Hussein, he was widely seen as a heavy-booted but reliable American ally in the fight against both the Soviets and militant Islamic fundamentalism.

    House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

  • As for Saddam Hussein, he was widely seen as a heavy-booted but reliable American ally in the fight against both the Soviets and militant Islamic fundamentalism.

    House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger 2004

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