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  • Well, your dentist will tell you a straw's a must to keep those pearly white pearly; and my grandma always said you only get one set of teeth.

    Danielle Cavallucci: Beauty, Botox and Delving Deeper: Sip Through A Straw I Say! 2010

  • Something snapped in Charlie Johns, who had been pushed, pulled, prodded, dropped, flung, amazed, embarrassed, and lost just exactly as much as he could stand plus a straw's weight.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • Well, your dentist will tell you a straw's a must to keep those pearly white pearly; and my grandma always said you only get one set of teeth.

    Beauty, Botox and Delving Deeper: Sip Through A Straw I Say! 2010

  • Well, your dentist will tell you a straw's a must to keep those pearly white pearly; and my grandma always said you only get one set of teeth.

    Danielle Cavallucci: Beauty, Botox and Delving Deeper: Sip Through A Straw I Say! 2009

  • So, here I go off into a new fantasy; leaving the woes of the world behind me; locked up in my latest dreamworld, while the fierce Demon of Reality blows at my house of straw's door--Huffing and puffing trying to blow that house down....

    S.O.S. The Daily Growler 2006

  • This straw's just here to make it easier to wet your whistle.

    straight straws - Anil Dash 2002

  • 'I don't have high hopes,' I said, 'but, frankly, just now every straw's worth clutching.'

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • 'I don't have high hopes,' I said, 'but, frankly, just now every straw's worth clutching.'

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • At this I became very princely and peremptory, but it didn't do a straw's worth of good.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • In this class of writings, however, and even among articles of a better type, there is, strangely enough, nowhere to be found so much as a straw's weight of stress laid upon the relentless, indestructible cause of so many of the woes of a country whose struggle for the bare means of subsistence has been Titanic.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

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