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  • I look at them curled up together in a shaft of afternoon sunlight coming through the back door, I think about Stuart's hour-glass, and I wonder: what is it about dogs?

    Dr. Peggy Drexler: Stuart and Polly: Is There Anything Else We Can Get You? Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011

  • This shiny, black spider is 8 to 10 millimeters long and has a distinct reddish hour-glass shaped mark on her abdomen.

    Spider Bites 2010

  • I look at them curled up together in a shaft of afternoon sunlight coming through the back door, I think about Stuart's hour-glass, and I wonder: what is it about dogs?

    Dr. Peggy Drexler: Stuart and Polly: Is There Anything Else We Can Get You? Dr. Peggy Drexler 2011

  • As the slice was pulled out of the cake, the cakey part sloughed off from the sides like sand from an hour-glass.

    Some cakes was ate. | clusterflock 2008

  • Evie Lovelle, with long dark hair and a "corps sublime," is an ecdysiast in the classic Gypsy Rose Lee tradition, wearing hour-glass corsets, whipping off her long gloves à la Rita Hayworth in "Gilda," and playing hide-and-seek behind huge feather fans.

    Burlesque Is Back in Paris Judy Fayard 2010

  • And as women gain more of an hour-glass figure, THEY become more attractive to men.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Steven Barnes 2009

  • And as women gain more of an hour-glass figure, THEY become more attractive to men.

    Letter from a reader Steven Barnes 2009

  • Marilyn Monroe hormone discovered: linked to hour-glass body, women wanting to trade-up men, and the kind of women "other women don't like"

    Hilarity in Misspelling gailcarriger 2009

  • And don't you know Sullivan's hour-glass figure is not unlike Russell's famous chassis -- a visual association Sullivan doesn't discourage by mentioning Russell (and Diamond Jim) and opening with a medley of turn-of-the-19th-century songs Russell may have performed or certainly heard enough.

    David Finkle: Chanteuse KT Sullivan Introduces Site-Specific Cabaret 2009

  • Plus, the braided leather belt is perfect for showing off our hour-glass figure even if we have a few more hours packed on than Demi

    Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin: Mom's Fall Rise-Up 2009

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