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  • Wanda would frostily correct anyone who called her spanking-new manufactured home, with its garden tub and cathedral ceilings, a “mobile home” or, God forbid, a “trailer.”

    A Dollar Short Karin Gillespie 2005

  • Wanda would frostily correct anyone who called her spanking-new manufactured home, with its garden tub and cathedral ceilings, a “mobile home” or, God forbid, a “trailer.”

    A Dollar Short Karin Gillespie 2005

  • Wanda would frostily correct anyone who called her spanking-new manufactured home, with its garden tub and cathedral ceilings, a “mobile home” or, God forbid, a “trailer.”

    A Dollar Short Karin Gillespie 2005

  • Gingerly touching my spanking-new bite mark, I waded through pages of results before finding a Web site for some occult book shop in Kentucky called Specialty Books.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • I've been doing a little self-interrogation about my discomfort with the phrase quoted, from Jason Kenney's spanking-new Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Nearby, the Chinese-built deepwater port, with its neat angles, spanking-new gantry cranes, and other cargo-handling equipment, appeared charged with expectation, even as the complex stood silent and empty against the horizon, waiting for decisions from Islamabad.

    Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

  • That night, he watched the Dallas Cowboys play their first game in their spanking-new, state-of-the-art $1.3 billion stadium.

    Misunderstood? Terrell Owens wants to clear misperceptions 2009

  • Infant mortality rates are among the worst in the world, but that spanking-new hospital, said one doctor, has no patients most of the time.

    The strange and evil world of Equatorial Guinea 2011

  • By contrast, the spanking-new Artisphere is all bright lights and sleek, modern curves and angles -- it even has a wall relaying video images.

    Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough Celia Wren 2010

  • Gingerly touching my spanking-new bite mark, I waded through pages of results before finding a Web site for some occult book shop in Kentucky called Specialty Books.

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

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