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From a distance of about ten feet, the slightly-built judge faced the massive commander, whose attorney had just praised him as "a man's man," so tough that even at 63 and in ill health he'd be a formidable foe in a fight.
Who Polices The Police? John Conroy Reflects On The Jon Burge Trial Better Government Association 2011
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From a distance of about ten feet, the slightly-built judge faced the massive commander, whose attorney had just praised him as "a man's man," so tough that even at 63 and in ill health he'd be a formidable foe in a fight.
Who Polices The Police? John Conroy Reflects On The Jon Burge Trial Better Government Association 2011
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You'll gain more information from a slightly-built middle-aged man in a white coat and surgical mask.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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You'll gain more information from a slightly-built middle-aged man in a white coat and surgical mask.
Rambling Rant Dungeekin 2009
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Er, what's up with slightly-built goalie Rep. Anthony Weiner D-NY being listed on the roster at 6-5 and 235 pounds?
Lobbyist Melissa Lavinson joins the men on the ice for Congressional Hockey Challenge 2011
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A handsome, slightly-built man with a cold eye and a quiet voice, Grey seems to have been quite as assured and impatient of opposition as Flashman found him: an idealist, he had a strong ruthless streak, and his portraits do not suggest a man whom it would be safe to cross.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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He was an elderly man, about 60, short and slightly-built.
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Those slightly-built wooden dwellings behind which the sun was setting with a brilliant lustre, could be so looked through and through, that the idea of any inhabitant being able to hide himself from the public gaze, or to have any secrets from the public eye, was not entertainable for a moment.
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This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might be the greater to them as men.
Two on a Tower 2006
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Shorter, more slightly-built people, coming along behind me, kept asking me if I was all right.
Archive 2006-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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