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  • Would it be simpathetic or cruel to put clothes on him? bunnyrut

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Hairless Ape: Looks cold to me! 2009

  • Coussin is a sofa which looks simpathetic and soft and in which one feels good.

    The Coussin Sofa by Inga Sempé 2009

  • I made it once with short grain Spanish rice and it came out very well. kel, I'm simpathetic, stocking up abroad is what I used to have to do.

    Recipes: Butternut Squash and Pancetta Risotto & Pan Fried Scallops and Capers (Κολοκύθα Ριζότο με Ιταλική Πανσέτα & Χτένια με Κάπαρης) Laurie Constantino 2008

  • The first time I heard that argument was from a white supremacist skinhead, who told me the real problem was not minorities but white race traitors who were simpathetic to minorities.

    A New Movement Among Us 2006

  • The haste with which he came to our releif so soon after the receipt of our Note, spoke so greatly in his favour that I hesitated not to pronounce him at first sight, a tender and simpathetic Freind.

    Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

  • Janetta was then only fifteen; naturally well disposed, endowed with a susceptible Heart, and a simpathetic Disposition, she might, had these amiable qualities been properly encouraged, have been an ornament to human Nature; but unfortunately her Father possessed not a soul sufficiently exalted to admire so promising a Disposition, and had endeavoured by every means on his power to prevent it encreasing with her Years.

    Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

  • The amnesty for illegal aliens will further erode their political future as the new voting block will not be very simpathetic to the folks that blocked their citizenship, the census will result in congressional redistricting that will make it nearly impossible for them to recover in the forseeable future.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local goskins 2009

  • Is it because you are most likely one of them and that makes you simpathetic to them?

    unknown title 2009

  • I know that if someone partacts or is simpathetic to a cause he is most likely like that cause.

    unknown title 2009

  • Besides, Slick is the kind of guy you can feel simpathetic with, as it represent a lot of us.

    COMIXTALK 2009

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