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Examples
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Thus, if nothing else, Hill continues to show time does abso-deffo side-wind all hells.
Thank you, Dave ... Frank Wilson 2008
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It was as if, with her effective little entresol and and her wide acquaintance, her activities, varieties, promiscuities, the duties and devotions that took up nine tenths of her time and of which he got, guardedly, but the side-wind — it was as if she had shrunk to a secondary element and had consented to the shrinkage with the perfection of tact.
The Ambassadors 2003
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Something deep — something built on their old old relation — passed, in this complexity, between them; he got the side-wind of a loyalty that stood behind all actual queer questions.
The Ambassadors 2003
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His funding wasn't just some tax side-wind and it certainly wasn't a PR exercise.
Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998
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In the largest this is some five feet long on the back, and eight or ten feet in height, -- so large, that, when the creature is swimming on the surface, a strong side-wind will sometimes blow it over.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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The Queen took no notice of these side-wind complaints, not wishing to enter into any explanation of her conduct.
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Here's opportunity of getting rid of it by side-wind.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891 Various
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He mentioned it in a very artful manner at council, where I was told that some of the wisest appeared at least, by their silence, to be of my opinion; but others, who were my secret enemies, could not forbear some expressions which, by a side-wind, reflected on me.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The Queen took no notice of these side-wind complaints, not wishing to enter into any explanation of her conduct.
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The Queen took no notice of these side-wind complaints, not wishing to enter into any explanation of her conduct.
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