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I dont think that running barefooted is better than running with shoes, but the kind of shoes and all the "technology" put into running shoes to FORCE foot motin, which is unnatural.
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In one swift, fluid motin, Neville broke free of the Body-Bind Curse upon him; the flaming hat fell off him and he drew from its depths something silver, with a glittering, rubied handle -
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Harry felt as though he turned into slow motin: he saw McGonagall, Kingsley and Slughorn blasted backward, flailing and writhing through the air, as Voldemort's fury at the fall of his last, best leutenant exploded with the force of a bomb, Voldemort raised his wand and directed it at Molly Weasley.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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Spain was governed by two foreigners, Grimaldi and Esquilacce, and the people rose in the famous "Hat-and-Cloak Riots" (motin de las capas y sombreros), which led to the Madrileños being prohibited the use of the national dress.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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_ Ordoñez y Aguiar, who lived on the spot within a generation of the occurrences recognizes in Maria Candelaria (whose true name Bancroft does not give) the real head of the rebellion, “quien ordenaba los ardides del motin; .... de lo que principalmente trataban las leyes fundamentales de su secta, era de que no quedase rastro alguno de que los Europeos havian pisado este suelo.”
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Especially in this performance with the round stage round where we're constantly in motin and you're seeing things from different angles, you almost feel like you're on a movie set where the camra is coimg aroung the characters.
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Oh! how doth this creeping creature wind wave, and weave it as (he goes? what felf obliterating chiverdils and inctentures are made in her motin?
Salvation in a Mystery, Or, A Prospective Glasse for Englands Case: As it was Laid Forth in a ... 1644
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