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  • I think I may have just gotten mildmannered hooked, whee!

    January 2nd, 2007 mildmannered 2007

  • The other day, in despair, I posted the lyrics to Greg Brown's Homeland, which I last heard at Falconridge in July. mildmannered, with whom I attended the Girlyman/Indigo Girls concert last night, posted the lyrics to the a capella hymn the merged groups closed with: Finlandia.

    November 8th, 2004 mildmannered 2004

  • As I wrote in my mildmannered piece entitled Consummate Prick:

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • As I wrote in my mildmannered piece entitled Consummate Prick:

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • Not wanting to let the soldiers suspect that she might really be mildmannered, Jennsen turned away and climbed down from the wagon to stand before the man who looked to be in charge.

    The Pillars of Creation Goodkind, Terry 2001

  • His mildmannered request had become an accusation.

    Day of Honor Carey, Diane 1997

  • He's mildmannered and conservative-no junketing supersalesman type, forever dashing off to view Imperial's vast domain.

    Frontiers of the Future 1953

  • So says newly minted 2010 USA Cross Country champ Dathan Ritzenhein, who has one persona (and name) for his fierce warrior distance running side and another for the smart funny self-aware and yet mildmannered side that's capable of understanding that the duality is as amusing as it is necessary.

    Runner\'s World Racing News Demian Faunt 2010

  • The war that was launched this past weekend against the Goldstone report in the New York Times is aimed at the mildmannered Sec'y General of the United Nations.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • (8 comments | Leave a comment) criticism, reviewing, feedback mildmannered said last night: "jadelennox speaks in Topic Sentences."

    June 13th, 2005 mildmannered 2005

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