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  • At that precise moment, something slammed down on top of him with a rib-breaking crack and ground him face-first into the ground.

    The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007

  • At that precise moment, something slammed down on top of him with a rib-breaking crack and ground him face-first into the ground.

    The Rose Bride Nancy Holder 2007

  • But is there any else longs to see this broken music in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking?

    As You Like It 2004

  • Charlie Weller stepped forward too, but a Corporal tripped him just as Sergeant Lynch kicked the dog, a brutal, rib-breaking kick that forced a yelp out of the animal and lifted it into the air to fly, screaming as it went, a full five yards away.

    Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

  • But is there any else longs to feel this broken music in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking?

    Act I. Scene II. As You Like It 1914

  • But is there any else longs to see this broken music in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking?

    As You Like It 1599

  • Or because one movie isn’t enough for all of Breaking Dawn’s rib-breaking, belly-chewing, vampire-baby lovin’ goodness.

    Breaking Dawn to be Split Into Two Movies, Chris Weitz to Direct? | /Film 2009

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