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  • Dance with your body pressed against her neck and mahogany breast like the curve of a fine horse's neck,

    Your Bass (for Walter Booker) 2009

  • Quaedam videntur et non sunt; compare her to another standing by, 'tis a touchstone to try, confer hand to hand, body to body, face to face, eye to eye, nose to nose, neck to neck,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In fact, if you actually acted on any of these traitorous acts you spew in here, I would be happy to personally cinch the rope up around your scrawny neck,

    Think Progress » Iraq: The War To Start All Wars 2005

  • When the bell was rung, a head appeared between the interstices of the dining-room shutters, and the door was opened by a man in drab breeches and gaiters, with a dirty old coat, a foul old neckcloth lashed round his bristly neck,

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • She invariably wore a pyramidal cap with pink ribbons, a high ruff round her neck,

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • “Then let me,” said the irresistible charmer, hiding her face in my bosom, and putting her other arm about my neck,

    Pamela 2006

  • Dressed in an elegant patterned white jacket and matching skirt with black trim, and a large string of pearls around her neck,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  •   And flaps his wings, and stretches back his neck,

    Collected Poems 2003

  • "I'll miss you in our bed," she said, sliding her arms around his neck,

    A Man Of Honour Leonard, Tina 2001

  • I'll put on my cap and black fringe all around my neck,

    The Lamenting Maid (Curragh of Kildare) 2000

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