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Examples
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And I've never been accused of being a wall-flower, or having any patience with those that seem to be riding one rail.
Should Americans Allow 9/11 and the Perceived Threat from al Qaeda to Dictate Our Future? 2009
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With no expectations, and managing to push aside my general wall-flower nature, I found it a useful experience; providing me with a far wider range of perspectives of the social web.
Archive 2009-01-01 David 2009
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And I've never been accused of being a wall-flower, or having any patience with those that seem to be riding one rail.
Should Americans Allow 9/11 and the Perceived Threat from al Qaeda to Dictate Our Future? 2009
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And I've never been accused of being a wall-flower, or having any patience with those that seem to be riding one rail.
Should Americans Allow 9/11 and the Perceived Threat from al Qaeda to Dictate Our Future? 2009
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On the other hand, Babs Bush was (and is still) a horrid heinous B***H and her hubby was a scheming black-ops oriented wall-flower ...
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: ELIZABETH EDWARDS SLAMS MATT DRUDGE FOR PICKING ON NINE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER!!! 2009
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During these wall-flower years I had one thing going for me: I was an excellent student, on the honor roll.
The Life And Times Of Jlo ** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008
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During these wall-flower years I had one thing going for me: I was an excellent student, on the honor roll.
Archive 2008-02-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008
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Wherever it was, he went upon it, with a bran-new ladder, a white hat, a brown holland jacket and trousers, a blue neck-kerchief, and a sprig of full-blown double wall-flower in his button-hole.
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Wherever it was, he went upon it, with a bran-new ladder, a white hat, a brown holland jacket and trousers, a blue neck-kerchief, and a sprig of full-blown double wall-flower in his button-hole.
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For Trajan erected many famous monuments and buildings, insomuch as Constantine the Great in emulation was wont to call him Parietaria, “wall-flower,” because his name was upon so many walls; but his buildings and works were more of glory and triumph than use and necessity.
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