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  • Upon looking on his chest, a shadow-like but very clearly defined triangular shape, pointing downward, extended the length of his body, as well as a darkened swoosh on his neck, as if painted lightly with an ink brush.

    Matteo Pistono: Meditation Master In Tibet Dies Matteo Pistono 2011

  • He whistled twice to the house across the street, then faded away shadow-like to the corner and around the corner.

    JUST MEAT 2010

  • Sightings of demons in Yorkshire have included a hideous shadow-like hell-hound with no discernible facial features which collided with a car between Northallerton and Leeming Bar on the A684.

    intertribal: the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010

  • Upon looking on his chest, a shadow-like but very clearly defined triangular shape, pointing downward, extended the length of his body, as well as a darkened swoosh on his neck, as if painted lightly with an ink brush.

    Matteo Pistono: Meditation Master In Tibet Dies Matteo Pistono 2011

  • Sightings of demons in Yorkshire have included a hideous shadow-like hell-hound with no discernible facial features which collided with a car between Northallerton and Leeming Bar on the A684.

    the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010

  • Appearing shadow-like, or as these posturing, confrontational looking guys, either for propagandist purposes, or just to show themselves that way to the world.

    Adam Helms Opens His Studio To Beautiful/Decay | Studio Visit (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • It's like some kind of for real good feeling I get inside when Max tells me just 'cause the clouds aren't there, doesn't mean no one is watching, 'cause I'm sick of doing my business in some kind of shadow-like hideaway.

    i am so into you 2009

  • It's like some kind of for real good feeling I get inside when Max tells me just 'cause the clouds aren't there, doesn't mean no one is watching, 'cause I'm sick of doing my business in some kind of shadow-like hideaway.

    i am so into you 2009

  • Notes On the Cover: Created by artist Kelly Murphy, here we see Meg writing her book as her thoughts flicker shadow-like on the wall behind her.

    Archive 2006-10-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • In all those years it had never once been opened; but either she unlocked it or the decaying wood and iron yielded to her hand, or she glided shadow-like through these impediments — and, at all events, went in.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

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