How To Use Blub In A Sentence
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They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Oh stop blubbing! Your knee can't hurt that much.
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Trey listened with a patient ear, only making distance with the receiver when she whined or couldn't make out her blubbering.
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Chatting in their usual rapid-fire mix of Czech and Slovak -- a sound that assistant coach Tim Hunter once described as "three guys trying to drown: blub-blub-blub" -- the trio suddenly broke into hysterical laughter.
From the archives: Skating through life
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They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
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Oh, and an ending that will have you blubbing into your Cinzano Rosso.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
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Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.
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No, not fat as in gross blubber bouncing around my waist and stuff; it's just that I think I'm about a few pounds heavier than I was when I was really fit in first year.
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The UK has become a vast blubber mountain.
The Sun
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Playing it at my desk this afternoon, it was so startlingly apt (right down to the name of the bloody airport that K will be flying back from on Friday!) that I nearly lost it and blubbed in the middle of the office.
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When we tried to microwave some frozen whale blubber sent down from Barrow, we ended up laughing as the muktuk sizzled and got tough.
Ellen Frankenstein: From Tofu to Muktuk
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blubber cheeks
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The gold medallist, who has blubbed several times, insisted she had toughened up.
The Sun
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Fish oil supplements are derived from a variety of sources, including mackerel, herring, tuna, salmon, cod liver, halibut, whale blubber and seal blubber.
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Other cases are shots of birds wheeling overhead, or dog teams riding, or kayak trips, or cleaning blubber that are all too long.
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*shnaps awn fresh CHRGwif installnation of xtra protecshun whalefatblubers*
U takes me home now? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Mr Rudd wept as he said he was proud of his achievements - but not of 'blubbering'.
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I don't propose to have "-- _shake_ --" an old windbag offering _me_ his blubbery old bosom "-- _shake, shake, SHAKE_ --" at this time of my life!
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
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I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.
Wuthering Heights
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When I looked at his face I saw his blubber lips twitching with the efforts of attempted smile, but he couldn't quite carry it off.
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He was not a lumberjack, or a fur trader, and he didn't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dog sled.
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When your wife tells you this, you will blub like a baby.
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At this point I am taking a coffee break as I retch once again at the thought of whale blubber sitting unhappily in my oesophagus.
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It makes you wonder if Ascot is ready for the sight of a 65-year-old man in a morning suit, blubbing like a lovesick teenager in front of the Queen.
Richard Hannon weeps tears of joy after Paco Boy's Lockinge romp
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All-new, all-ages, all-action fun featuring the Grey Gargoyle and – glub blub blub blub – HYDRO-MAN!!!!!!!
Marvel Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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She was crying and blubbering, unable to believe what I was doing.
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The ventral surface of the pouch is covered by grooved blubber, on which the 50-90 grooves extend from the jaw tips to as far posteriorly as the umbilicus.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Yes I am losing my blubber, but I have tonnes of it left to lose.
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As we ease in for the pick-up, I can see a tiny nub of blubber protruding from the end of the tip.
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When the duchess smiles, her face lights up like a 100-watt light blub.
Lisa Mirza Grotts: Royal Observations From the Curb: The Crowds, the Gown, the Crown!
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I'm a tough sort of bint that doesn't generally blub at this kind of thing.
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Somewhere quite profound, somewhere near his heart, Patrick wants to blub: he wants to let his eyes fill with Rebecca and salt.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Potato chips aren't rubbery and blubbery like fat. They are crispy and crunchy like lettuce. That proves they are diet food.
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I've blubbed twice so far at those little films that they're showing which tear your heart out and make you stop laughing.
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They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
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Here he found remains of structures for rendering blubber into whale oil.
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Even so, they might have managed to scrape through the winter on their stock of frozen salmon and stored blubber, and what the traps gave them, but in December one of their hunters came across a tupik (a skin-tent) of three women and a girl nearly dead, whose men had come down from the far North and been crushed in their little skin hunting-boats while they were out after the long-horned narwhal.
The Second Jungle Book
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Then into the hollow goes the whalebone, so, tightly coiled, and another piece of blubber is fitted over the whale-bone.
The Story of Keesh
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Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!
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When the word was given the brief day was almost spent, and it was slow work and tedious, rolling the big bales forward foot by foot The bullets of the Sunlanders blub-blubbed and thudded against them, but could not go through, and the men howled their delight But the dark was at hand, and Tyee, secure of success, called the bales back to the trenches.
THE SUNLANDERS
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An issue about human mountains of wobbling blubber in danger of making their country sink under their weight.
The Sun
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Charcoal, Propane, Mesquite, whale blubber, whatever gives you the taste that you desire.
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Here's a few blubs from some recent emails I've sent out.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
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An issue about human mountains of wobbling blubber in danger of making their country sink under their weight.
The Sun
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And when the short day left them, and the man lay down in the snow and blubbered, it was the woman who lashed him to the sled, bit her lips with the pain of her aching limbs, and helped the dog haul him to Malemute Kid's cabin.
THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
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Yet no one seems to like a blubber.
The Sun
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The City and Westminster used to groan under the weight of excess blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet no one seems to like a blubber.
The Sun
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Shame he had to ruin it all by blubbing like a jessie but you can't have everything.
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But then she decided that she was going to be no use to anyone if she was going to blub all the time.
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I looked in the mirror at my blubber and blubbed.
The Sun
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Is it not ironic that they needed to have so many light blubs to prove thier point.
GREENPEACE LAUNCHES DIMMABLE ECO BULB in London | Inhabitat
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A gull will land on the back of a surfaced whale and rip at its flesh and blubber.
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All you do is sob uncontrollably in the fetal position while blubbering, ‘I miss my Nana!’
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A nice piece of blubber from a walrus or some reindeer tallow," said Menie.
The Eskimo Twins
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East gave a little ghost of a smile, and his hand tightened, and then went loose in mine - and I found I was blubbering and gasping, and thinking about Rugby, and hot murphies at Sally's shop, and a small fag limping along pathetically after the players at Big Side - because he couldn't play himself, you see, being lame.
Fiancée
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It's the ocassional books that we come across that we just don't care for (for whatever reasons) that makes me wonder what it is that makes us pick them up in the first place .. the great cover? the blubs? an amazon review? something makes us think we will like it and then it disappoints! but we love most of your books so I guess we can't complain lol
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
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The blubs pretty much reiterate the point I make in my jacket copy: the books are funny and scary.
Archive 2006-06-17
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They chewed at it until, softened, it yielded, like blubber or leather, to their understanding.
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They are the least outwardly emotional, although they are the most prone to blubbing at weddings.
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Cassidy placed a firm kiss on his cheeks and ushered herself out of the door before the tears could break through the mental dam and she began blubbering again.
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Stopping by a pack of youths on a corner, I was as surprised as anyone to hear the two words that blubbed out of my mouth; “Stone-Heart.”
The Ebsen Reaction
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Yet the movement of his blubber lips, closely pressed together, showed clearly that he could not understand a word.
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Wild boar, squid in black ink, raw seal liver, air-dried whale blubber, zebra.
Lea Lane: The Weirdest Foods I Ever Ate
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After a about another half an hour of crying, blubbering, and her trying to tell me how she felt, she finally fell asleep and I softly moved her head to her pillow.
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Occasionally she sighs deeply, with that blubbery, spluttery noise that all horses make when they sigh.
Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
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The same folks blubbering about the reigning obsession with thinness as an insult to fatness are making a disgusting mockery of starving people's plight.
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And while on the subject of handkerchiefs, Brodie Ross's Roderigo is the best ever – a hilarious wimp, blubbing into his soggy hankie, insisting on repeated hugs from Iago.
Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review
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Finally, blubbering and whining, the papa bear - triumph of American technology - just gave up.
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According to Home Power magazine, the compact fluorescent blubs provide a guaranteed, 120-percent return on your investment over the life of the bulb.
Economic Stimulus Package: Money to Invest and Save, Not Spend
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I think I may be becoming a sentimental old fool, but that's twice in a month I've blubbed at a drama.
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Yet no one seems to like a blubber.
The Sun
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On Monday, Lily Allen and Perez Hilton continued their ongoing feud by posting a series of insult-laced blubs on their respective Twitter pages.
Lily Allen Perez Hilton Feud
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Then, limping over to Barn's prone body, he straddled the man, and sat down on his blubbery belly.
GALILEE
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Indeed, if it came to tonnage, I believe a good blubbery right-whale could easily give points to any deinosaur that ever moved upon oolitic continents.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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The Works of the Caledonian Bards: Translated from the Galic
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His blubbering died to a sniffle, which he trimmed with his sleeve.
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I blubbed when he was sitting in his house with his mum, recalling when he was told he had cancer and came out of the hospital and started thinking about where he wanted to be.
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We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ada was blubbering now, tears and snot running down a red face, she opened her mouth to say one more thing, but at the last moment found some resolve.
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And every town on the route seemed to produce at least one blubbery streaker, sliding along the ice on his bum, to relieve the waits between passing groups of skaters.
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He was to investigate the pathology, the pesticide levels in the blubber, try to do bacteriology and virology.
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Lies on a reinforced bed all day, a vast mountain of blubber.
The Sun
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“Gam,” a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about “spouters” and “blubber-boilers,” and such like pretty exclamations.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
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Somehow that thought doesn't seem so foreign, the way she's whimpering and carrying on like that, shaking and blubbering like an overgrown and very ugly baby.
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When the time comes, you will be able to put the boss down with a crushing one-liner and stalk out of the office with head held high, instead of rushing to the pub to blub into your pint.
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‘I don't know how to serve,’ she said before blubbing gently over the microphone.
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Would be interested to know though how many times she has 'blubbed' in the chamber though over the past ten years or so as I can only recall her voice breaking when discussing a large number of farmer suicides in her constituancy.
Kirsty gets gloopy blue
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Stop blubbering and tell me what's wrong.
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Now she's blubbering away all over again about something else.
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Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.
Moby Dick
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Paramore shook up their pop-metal repertoire last year with The Only Exception, a blubbery ballad about wuv.
Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing?
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The story begins with a different kind of water-- Jill's hot, humiliating tears, as she sits "blubbing" behind the gym where she has sought refuge from Them, the school bullies.
Archive 2007-01-01
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East gave a little ghost of a smile, and his hand tightened, and then went loose in mine — and I found I was blubbering and gasping, and thinking about Rugby, and hot murphies at Sally's shop, and a small fag limping along pathetically after the players at Big Side — because he couldn't play himself, you see, being lame.
Flashman In The Great Game
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I've been through a lot in the last four years and I'm so glad it has culminated in this way," he blubbed.
World Cup 2010: Landon Donovan secures top spot as USA beat Algeria
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She blubbered, completely unable to stop herself and completely humiliated that she was crying like a madwoman in front of Jordan!
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Overweight, blubbery, unfit bodies are no great advantage at 19,000 feet and so the bodies were whipped into (some sort of) shape.
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Guest well them energy saving light blubs causes skin cancer if Luke Skywalker uses his new energy saving lightsaber he might get skin cancer
Cool Stuff: LightSaver T-Shirt | /Film
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He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words: 'nitwit', 'oddment', 'blubber' and 'tweak 1, and again, had to suppress a grin ... what was the matter with him?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Mum asked me why I was crying and I blubbered, ‘Everything.’
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Large quantities of unused frozen meat and blubber have been found on rubbish dumps after recent drives.
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Dear me, this indifferent Antenna bastardly blubbered at this ubiquitous.
Planet-x.com.au » Caravans accessories Caravans Antenna travel park accessories
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I decided to do it just because I have lived with a little too much blubber around my middle for my entire life although the rest of me is quite lean and fat-less.
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Lies on a reinforced bed all day, a vast mountain of blubber.
The Sun
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The UK has become a vast blubber mountain.
The Sun
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I want the lady with the nice smelling skin not your furry blub.
Ethan Sandler: Seahorses and Similac
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Kevin Rudd's family were "blubbering" again in Brisbane on Tuesday night, but this time they were happy tears celebrating the launch of daughter Jessica's first novel.
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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And instead of saying "I would like to say a few words: Nitwit! blubber! oddment! tweak!
Harry Potter and the Dropped Ball
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To escape the blubbery kisses of great aunts and the beery, fag - fugged breaths of distant cousins, we children used to escape outside, playing a game called Jumping the Gardens, which was modelled on the Grand National.
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I demand to be allowed to blub like a baby at least once a year.
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The UK has become a vast blubber mountain.
The Sun
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Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
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Ai tayke owt awl teh lite blubs den nowun can switch litez awn.
Pssst… new rool - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty -- still panting hard -- and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering -- his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood which flowed from his nose -- nose that seemed to Lenny
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
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She sobbed, wailed, blubbered, howled, cried and whatever people do to express sorrow hoping that her tears and crying will bring her other half back.
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Standing on the podium he once again blubbed like a baby, but this time with joy.
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Alas, she was fishing for compliments and blubbed.
Times, Sunday Times
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They try to keep still, to conserve their resources of blubber and mother's milk.
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Under these circumstances we cannot say we are going to Bosnia to win," blubbed Blanc as he nervously checked to see whether his players had suddenly decided to boycott the match or the kit had spontaneously combusted.
It Could Always Be Worse, and the France Football Team
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The answer is all too mundane: The blobs are old whale blubber.
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So in lieu of packing, I spent Saturday sniffling and blubbering over two years of Scottish detritus.
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Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen, who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counsellors, and clergy.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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All the time the whistle and blub-blub of bullets filled the air, and all the time the death-list grew.
THE SUNLANDERS
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She then blubbed so much that everyone changed from “no” to “yes”.
SLACKERJACK – Double Wires
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I'm less proud of the fact that I have now blubbered," he joked, as he struggled to contain his tears.
Australia Gets First Female Prime Minister
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I've said before that my metabolism wavers sinuously between stallion and walrus, and I've been getting noticeably blubbery in recent months.
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The storeman, plastered with snow, reappears hot and triumphant before the cook, but this dignitary is awkwardly kneading the dough of wholemeal scones, and the messman is feeding the fire with seal-blubber to ensure a "quick" oven.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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An issue about human mountains of wobbling blubber in danger of making their country sink under their weight.
The Sun
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A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.
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There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
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I have it on good authority that the whale thinks that this ballyhoo is a bunch of, well, blubber.
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Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat.
Ulysses
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In other words, there's more to whales and sharks than blubber and dorsal fins; and the sooner we acknowledge this, the longer we may last in the evolutionary game of snakes-and-ladders.
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That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The whale is rich in blubber.
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You are a pathetic little person who seeks nothing but attention and I enjoy poking your blubbery pale belly.
Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist
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A word every prep fears, due to the fact they hate seeing a little bit of blubber on anyone, especially themselves.
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Limbaugh is a blubbery, drug-addicted hypocrite — the perfect face of the Republican Party. zooman Says:
Matthew Yglesias » John McCain, Dittohead
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He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny Fairfield's feelings to be a nose no more, but a swollen, gigantic, mountainous Slawkenbergian excrescence; in fact, he felt all nose!
My Novel — Complete
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In they prance, and Titi fingered the Urber and blubbed like two morts, and the hoppies grabbled him and what's your name, you're for iron.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
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She pouted out t her blubber-lips, as if to bellows up wind and sputter in her horse-nostrils; and her chin was curdled, and more than usually prominent with passion.
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Take some exercise and get rid of some of that blubber!
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Oh stop blubbing! Your knee can't hurt that much.
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He whinnied for his lost mother all that first day and night, blubbering in the corner of the pasture, and he clung to his resentment as he grew into a half-ton adolescent.
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Aquatic birds and mammals, equipped with subcutaneous blubber, may also have a covering of fur or feathers.
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There is cuddly fur and downy fluff to stroke, rubber-like blubber and armour-like scales to feel - mammals certainly come in all manner of wonderful varieties.
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The actor, 41, on Bob Dylan, blubbing and playing to small audiences
This much I know: Toby Stephens
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Back in the light, I turned to find an eight-year-old blubbering at my side.
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Unlike Ball, he wasn't a World Cup winner, but he blubbed in the semi-final and that seemed sufficient to make him significantly more famous than anyone who did.
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I burst into tears, blubbering to his retreating form.
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The likeliest cause for your expanding waistline is just excess blubber.
The Sun
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I cried too, "said ittymay, while ihussain admitted:" I had to walk away from the screen and couldn't talk in case I blubbed in front of colleagues!
The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week
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Surrounded by snow and ice, an Aleut hunter slices slabs of raw whale blubber for dinner.
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We wander, awestruck, amid these languid mountains of blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are so many celebrities/non-celebrities that are willing to pay lots of money to have the plastic surgeon to give them that blubber lips.
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The whales visible in the distance can live here only because they are protected by thick layers of blubber.
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It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.
This week's new singles
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The whale is rich in blubber.
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The smell of the sea was in the air as picnickers feasted on sun-dried halibut, muktuk, whale blubber, and Greenland raisin cake.
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A crew of men sets to work stripping the great whale of its blubber.
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Pitsor said new bulbs now on the market include more advanced incandescent blubs that use 28% less energy than standard bulbs.
Light bulb law faces challenge in Congress
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I was ok for the most part until my cousin went to speak, and then I could no longer restrain my tears, and blubbed hideously into the tissues I'd luckily remembered to bring with me, turning them into soggy balls of snot and tears.
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He wore an army greatcoat, not big enough to cover his blubbery belly although it was buttoned across his chest.
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The name was coined by whalers, who considered the species the ‘right’ whale to hunt because its blubber makes dead whales float, aiding recovery of the carcass.
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The transients ambush them - they have a taste for the gray whale calves' high-energy blubber and protein-rich tongues.
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Similarly, the current weight control standards seem to be deliberately designed to keep fat-necked, big-bellied blubber balls in the Army while pushing muscular and fit mesomorphs out the door.
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They'd be reduced to blubbering babies, begging for their lives.
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He thought the fellow that I had described as blubbering over his still-born poems would have been better occupied in earning his living in some honest way or other.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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At last, he asked: ‘How can we help you?’, on which cue I burst into tears and blubbered incoherently.
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There he sat, cowering against the wall, blubbering like a child.
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When David went off travelling we were all outside blubbing because we will miss him.
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The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
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What gives these epidermal exhibitionists the right to force everyone else in the Republic to eyeball their blubbery thighs and ratty chest hair?
Hey, Buddy, Keep Your Shirt On!
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A compound of imbecility and baseness, yet an object of commiseration: an unmanly, blubbering, lovesick, querulous creature; a soldier, whining, piping and besprent with tears, destitute of any good quality to gain esteem, or any brilliant trait or interesting circumstance to relieve an actor under the weight of representing him.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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I'm rolling in blubber, drowning in my own lard.
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Whale meat and blubber is shared out locally, and a small amount is sold to pay for the upkeep of boats.
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a coarse blubbery individual
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He sobbed, blubbered and moaned, without shame or moderation.
How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile)
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"Omigod, omigod, omigod," she blubbered.
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But the discerning reader soon realizes that the reason Linda is picked on has nothing to do with her weight although her weight is the subject about which Linda is most sensitive and therefore the subject on which Wendy chooses to focus the majority of her taunts and that the term blubber doesn’t have as much to do with Linda’s size as it does her personality—or lack thereof.
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
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There were bits of skin and blubber left behind and the mast was wrecked.
The Sun
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The amount of contaminants in the meat of sea mammals is also low, but the level of contamination in the blubber of seals and whales is high.
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If we don't stabilize Iraq, unchecked bloody civil war will break out and the butchery will be 100X worse than present levels Lefties blubber about so "heartfeltly".
"The biggest question is how far can Democrats go in opposing this president?"
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Each of them seemed panicked and blubbery, mumbling to themselves in French.
Crossed
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Whales, and also seals, are provided with remarkable special networks of blood-vessels in various parts of the body (called "retia mirabilia" by the old anatomists,) and also with a thick layer of fat under the skin, the "blubber" (some feet deep in a large whale), full of blood-vessels.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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When refined into kerosene, it was the only ‘cheap illuminant that burned in a bright, clean, safe manner,’ by far better than blubber and lard.
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At best that loud, fat, smelly walking pile of hu-mon blubber is a capable man beast for filling my food bowl.
GOD TRIES TO STOP SANDLER/SHANKMAN FILM
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The City and Westminster used to groan under the weight of excess blubber.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dear me, this indifferent Antenna bastardly blubbered at this ubiquitous.
Planet-x.com.au » Caravans accessories Caravans Antenna travel park accessories
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Morlock is rudely awakened by a stone monster, which he dispatches thanks to blubbing and skills.
Archive 2010-03-01
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She was, to put it politely, a big girl: big-boned and blubbery, with long, mousy brown hair that hung like curtains in front of her face.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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I blubbed a lot during this movie, as well as laughing out loud.
The Sun
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Correct me if I’m wrong but it looks like Specter is just like all the other Republicans and simply posturing, blubbering in feigned indignation, and mugging for the camera’s in the wake of the November elections.
Think Progress » Specter Caves, Proposes Blanket Amnesty For Illegal Government Surveillance
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Somewhere quite profound, somewhere near his heart, Patrick wants to blub: he wants to let his eyes fill with Rebecca and salt.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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But that business is encountering its own problems, specifically a bottleneck in processing seal blubber for nutritional supplements.
