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  • She must have carried it from room to room, mawing it up and rubbing slobber-loosened pieces everywhere.

    True Story: Dog Eats Engagement Ring 2009

  • She must have carried it from room to room, mawing it up and rubbing slobber-loosened pieces everywhere.

    True Story: Dog Eats Engagement Ring 2009

  • Always he fought the flames, plunging into the mawing heat, screaming for Sorcha, desperate to save the only thing innocent and good in his life.

    My Soul to Keep Sharie Kohler 2010

  • ` ` I am sure ye are right about the sawing and the mawing, the shearing and the leading, and what for suld ye no be right about kirkwark, too?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • These mod­ern schol­ars of impetu­ous par­ti­cle con­ver­sion (chiefly Comte 'and Voraise) refer to this process as mawing.”

    Coffee and Cream F**k the Shit out of Me 2010

  • “I am sure ye are right about the sawing and the mawing, the shearing and the leading, and what for suld ye no be right about kirkwark, too? —

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • "I am sure ye are right about the sawing and the mawing, the shearing and the leading, and what for suld ye no be right about kirkwark, too?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • "I am sure ye are right about the sawing and the mawing, the shearing and the leading, and what for suld ye no be right about kirkwark, too?

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

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