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  • He celebrated his 46th birthday on stage in Philadelphia last night, where roughly 20,000 middle-aged women reliving their youth sang Happy Birthday to the tinily buff Bon.

    GUESS WHO IS 46 AND LOOKING FABULOUS? | Best Week Ever 2008

  • Then, one day, a lovely sunny day with great tufts of primroses under the hazels, and many violets dotting the paths, she came in the afternoon to the coops and there was one tiny, tiny perky chicken tinily prancing round in front of a coop, and the mother hen clucking in terror.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • She raised her small gloved fist, yawned ever so gently, tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily, sweetly.

    Ulysses 2003

  • She exclaimed over Zoe, admiring her extravagantly, insisted upon kissing away a purely imaginary look of headache from her brother's brow, and led the way quite tinily regal, her running line of comment unbroken.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • "Oh," said Mrs. Severance again, but this time tinily and with a flavor of third acts about her, and she started to relax rather beautifully into a

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

  • She did not whisper the intimate details of her honeymoon to other young married women; she did not run about quaintly and tinily telling her difficulties with household work.

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • She raised her small gloved fist, yawned ever so gently, tiptapping her small gloved fist on her opening mouth and smiled tinily, sweetly.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • In the short grass, stirred by a breeze, a harebell seemed tinily ringing.

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • My father astonished me by putting out his hand to the priest, admittedly a hard hand coarsened by digging, and Fr Gaunt astonished me by immediately flicking the ash into the offered hand, which perhaps flinched tinily for a moment when the heat hit it.

    Asylum 2009

  • Then the brown man stamped his foot, and the striking of his foot upon the moss made a new noise such as Jurgen had never heard: for the noise seemed to come multitudinously from every side, at first as though each leaf in the forest were tinily cachinnating; and then this noise was swelled by the mirth of larger creatures, and echoes played with this noise, until there was a reverberation everywhere like that of thunder.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

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