How To Use Leaping In A Sentence
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My blood seemed to make music in my vessels as it seemed to come more highly oxygenized singing to my brain, and tingled fresher and warmer into the capillaries of the entire surface, leaping and bubbling like a mountain-brook after a shower.
The Opium Habit
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The band then romp through three road songs that most people would die for to have in their repertoire, each single one would get people leaping about on the dance floor at a college hop.
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Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
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Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering.
A PIECE OF STEAK
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Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes.
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In that area the sparks were not traveling on the netlike lines, but leaping randomly into the grayness and disappearing.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
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You see people leaping out of the way as some great wad of canvas comes hurtling towards them.
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The dog is leaping at him.
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Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight.
Ilium
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The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers.
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The chinkara scattered into the scrub as we approached but the blackbuck kept appearing and reappearing, leaping across our path as we drove through the desert.
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But why, she wondered, her thoughts leaping off at a tangent, had that balding, thick-set man seemed familiar?
LAST SHOT
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He has such explosive leaping ability he can block anyone's shot.
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It didn't hurt either that all the art showed her leaping out over futuristic cityscapes with gun drawn.
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His crunching forehand winner on the last point sent him on a joyous, leaping celebration, and with lucrative reason.
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So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
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His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
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The downhills offer little relief, as long leaping strides will send your quads into convulsions.
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Some surprisingly inventive puzzles are included amid the expertly handled robot blasting and leaping around with a jetpack.
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The following day the front page of your Career section featured a photo of a high-rise building superimposed with an image of a leaping man.
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We felt we were leaping into the unknown.
The Sun
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Our music-hall performers have invented a kind of clowning peculiar to this country, in which kicking and leaping are also a part of the business.
Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
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the footpads leaping from the darkness and Colum's cold despatch of two of them.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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While the others were leaping around in Union Jack mini-dresses or leopardskin catsuits, flashing tattoos and tongue studs, she was usually lurking in the background.
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I could imagine children leaping up and down while their parents lit up the crackers on rooftops.
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As in, when frightened by the unanticipated attack of an allergenic cat I have been known to sneeze whilst leaping back in an unexpected fashion of my own!
Auld Lang Syne, etc.
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The woman was sometimes caught or confronted on properties or in her victim's homes but always made a getaway, once through a hole in a hedge and on another occasion by leaping a fence.
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running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes
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The packaging itself is quite nice, with an embossed Batman leaping out of the front cover of the cardboard box jacket.
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Leaping to Israel's defence is still what the Jewish establishment does best.
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Re: In any case, leaping to conclusions, any federal employee accusing anyone of “communism” today should be checked for a Freeper user ID.
Matthew Yglesias » A Missed Torture Opportunity
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She was his foam-born Goddess of those leaping waters; differently hued, crescented, a different influence.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The following day the front page of your Career section featured a photo of a high-rise building superimposed with an image of a leaping man.
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In the case of the bird-watcher abduction, the Filipino guide, Ivan Sarenas, escaped by leaping over the side of the boat in which they were being carried after securing the approval of the others, Swiss national Lorenzo Vinciguerra and Dutchman Ewold Horn.
Philippine Strike Kills 3 Terrorists
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A chukka is a seven-and-a-half-minute period of play, which is generally agreed to be about the right amount of time for a pony to be galloping around - although real pros often change pony several times within a chukka, leaping nimbly from saddle to saddle without touching the ground.
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For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries.
Laws
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But, since she was dealing with fantasy, that locale isn't set in concrete: Prince Charming, or whatever we might call the rescuer of the play's maiden-in-distress, springs to her temporary rescue as a leaping, kilted Scot, sparkling with giddiness and glee, and his nearby home seems to be a castle.
Leo Stutzin: 'Wild Bride' At The Berkeley Rep: Serious Enchantment
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Moss attacks vertically, using his speed to streak downfield and his size and leaping ability to snatch passes away from defenders.
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Which is the way of the dog, the only animal that will cheerfully and gladly, with leaping body of joy, leave its food uneaten in order to accompany or to serve its human master.
CHAPTER V
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I run down Courtenay Place, sidestepping someone as I swerve at speed onto Taranaki Street, passing the doctor's and the florist and leaping across the road beside the bookstore.
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A breeze from the north-west chased the blood to healthsome leaping, and caught the breath like an unexpected kiss.
Demos
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Just as we surfaced, two penguins torpedoed by, leaping out of the water and bouncing, like so many skipping stones.
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The Americans ran in total rout from the field, leaping over the stone walls off Lexington Green.
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It will root you in your seat, when it doesn't have you on the edge of it, or leaping up and cheering.
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The picture of salmon swimming against strong current or leaping waterfalls confirms the specialness of this animal.
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What he saw was that of a girl leaping high in the air reaching for a handball.
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He knew, as he sat with clenched hands and staring eyes, that chiefly he was longing for a woman -- a woman whose eyes and lips and sunny hair haunted him after months of forgetfulness, and whose face smiled at him luringly, now, from out the leaping flashes of fire -- tempting him, calling him over a thousand miles of space.
Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
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Now another denizen, the Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladius — which measures up to 20 feet long and decades ago was commonly seen leaping above the waters — appears to be on the verge of extinction, if not already gone forever.
A Paddlefish Warning, from China
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She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
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He also uses his body intelligently, leaping from his chair with jet-propelled force on accused of being a ‘traitor‘.
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But Jerry snarled again and was for leaping upon the black when he stirred restlessly and dizzily sat up.
CHAPTER XXIII
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Yet it's hard to argue when one stands in its presence: The car's obsidian aluminum body Mr. Lauren changed the color from blue seems to leap over itself in a cavort of harmonies and symmetries, the fenders and arched roofline like black dolphins breeching and leaping.
A Man Driven to Distraction
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And he put on a virtuoso display of leaping.
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Rouelle Umali/Xinhua/Zuma Press LEAPING ALONG: Rescue personnel rappelled down a building during a fire and earthquake drill in Quezon, Philippines, Friday.
Photos of the Day: March 18
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It was a magnificent display of the phenomenon, and I feel certain that my attention was first attracted to it by the crackling sound which appeared to accompany the motion of the pale flames as they streamed across the sky; indeed, _crackling_, is not the word that properly describes the sound I heard, which was precisely that made by the _flickering_ of blazing fire; and as I have often since read and heard discussions upon the question whether the motion of the aurora is or is not accompanied by an audible sound, I can only say that on this occasion it was the sound that first induced me to observe the sheets of white light that were leaping up the sky.
Records of a Girlhood
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The XJ120, introduced in 1948, brilliantly emulated the graceful wave-motion of the leaping Panthera onca in the forests of the Amazon.
Wildwood
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Despite the fall of the wealth of Britain's aristocracy over the last century, the titled still have a heavy presence with the Queen, 10 dukes, seven marquesses, 19 earls, seven viscounts and 24 lords still leaping in the list.
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Megan explained before leaping forward and hauling a big blue duffle bag off the conveyer belt with all the baggage on it.
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The colors should be restful, and the plantings should be such that you don't enter the space seeking a rest and then find yourself forever leaping up to pull a weed or deadhead something.
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So Gunther et al. (1992) titled a paper 'Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids'.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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CUT TO: black cloud of smoke wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat I believe they are called “deerstalker”, no doubt because of all those deer Sherlock Holmes killed by leaping out of trees and ripping out their throats with his teeth.
Batteries For Smoke Detectors
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When the professor showed up at the podium, Aidis grabbed onto his chair's armrests to keep himself from leaping for the door.
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His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground.
CHAPTER XIX
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I have visions of the plant leaping upon passers-by and forcing them to eat its fruit.
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One of the monkeys pounced on a woman holding a child, biting her arm before leaping back into the tree.
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The hind legs of the gerbil are particularly well adapted to leaping across its desert habitat.
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The men were still exquisite, postured with their arms draped over their heads in stillness or lunging and leaping in wild fits as the Tchaikovsky score crescendoed.
Susan Eley: Hooters to Swan Lake During One Week in New York
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Yet it's hard to argue when one stands in its presence: The car's obsidian aluminum body Mr. Lauren changed the color from blue seems to leap over itself in a cavort of harmonies and symmetries, the fenders and arched roofline like black dolphins breeching and leaping.
A Man Driven to Distraction
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In any case, leaping to conclusions, any federal employee accusing anyone of “communism” today should be checked for a Freeper user ID.
Matthew Yglesias » A Missed Torture Opportunity
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Within minutes our helpful staff members will be leaping out of your unmarked van to chloroform and tie-up the person or persons of your choosing.
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He expressed his enthusiasm by referring to a leaping ballet step: "We should clap and cabriole with delight.
Kirkland Dances to Her Own Music
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Betty laid the Gem alongside the stringpiece, and Grace and Mollie, leaping out, soon had the boat fast.
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem
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Shooting out lights, opening and closing doors and leaping to precarious positions are all part of the game.
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The violin, however, weak of voice as it is, always carries the day, and the other instruments steal discontentedly back to their secondary places, the snuffy old violone keeping up a constant growl at its ill luck, and the trombone now and then leaping out like a tiger on its prey.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
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Last time I checked, Kermit's mates were a little on the lean side, what with all that leaping around, so it probably took 50 frogs to produce this tiny sachet of froggy cellulite.
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Sea lions gain speed by porpoising, leaping clear of the water and then gliding near the water's surface to minimize resistance.
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He can't decide what to tell her of that glorious night: leaping up the stairs to his digs, Julia behind him, heaping discarded clothing, scooping papers, books, socks from the sofa to make a space, wishing he had fresh milk in the fridge; through his curtainless window nothing more than the slimmest rib of a moon to judge them.
Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell
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But, since she was dealing with fantasy, that locale isn't set in concrete: Prince Charming, or whatever we might call the rescuer of the play's maiden-in-distress, springs to her temporary rescue as a leaping, kilted Scot, sparkling with giddiness and glee, and his nearby home seems to be a castle.
Leo Stutzin: 'Wild Bride' At The Berkeley Rep: Serious Enchantment
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Goddess of those leaping waters; differently hued, crescented, a different influence.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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More ladders were brought up, they were thrown into the ditch, and our men, leaping into it, raised them against the escarp on the other side.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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transcendental platan," breaking into foliage and flower at the summit of its smooth tall bole; the splendour of flame leaping from the dull fuel of gums and straw.
Robert Browning
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His enemies were coming on quickly now, leaping from tree to tree with a speed Matthew had previously thought them incapable of.
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When not leaping off the prow of the longship or whatever, even the berserkers led surprisingly domesticated lives, if the sagas are to be believed. on 08 Jul 2009 at 5: 03 am Ben Kane
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Robert Low, part one
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The four leaping women of Empty Center, their pink skin ravishing against the dark green background, are a scattered rendition of Matisse's The Dance (first version).
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And if that threatened squall should burst its bonds and come shrieking and howling in fury across the surface of the sea, scourging it into a mad turmoil of foaming, leaping water and blinding spindrift, while the burnt-out crew of the schooner were making their passage across to the _Mercury_, it might be very bad for them; for even should they be fortunate enough to avoid capsizal, it might be exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the ship, smitten and bowed down by the might of the tempest, to pause and pick them up.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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It was cool just checking out all the different heroes walking/running/superspeeding/superleaping/flying / teleporting down the street.
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Cote keeps leaping out of his seat to collect award after award.
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He threw his wife Sheila out of an emergency exit before leaping into the darkness after her seconds before the explosion.
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I was vaguely aware of a crowd of people all around me who had been ejected less dramatically, but I put my full attention to leaping up and kicking the bejeezus over and over out of that door.
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Louping and flinging on a crummock, [Leaping, cudgel]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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In fact the players are leaping out of their skins in training, and there's a very steely resolve to do down the odds and bring about what most neutrals would consider to be a fairly major championship shock on Sunday week.
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Carr completed only three of his first 11 passes, and the longest play of the first half was when Carr eluded linebacker Derrick Brooks by leaping into the air and doing a summersault on a 15-yard gain.
USATODAY.com - Football - Tampa Bay vs. Carolina
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I'm getting very good at leaping long distances from a standing start.
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There will be no shortage of appliance makers leaping in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Flying prey can be caught by the crocodilians leaping into the air with thrusts of their powerful tail.
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I observed, in fine egalitarian style, a punt full of beer-swilling lads float by - a mate running along the tow path, shooting down the bank, using a punt full of tourists as a stepping stone, and leaping in among them.
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Leaping from the davits of the boat-deck above, they plunged downward, their faces and shoulders bowed forward, looking at the water.
Under the Deck Awnings
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After it rid the world of leaping lawnmowers and exploding frying pans, it turned its sights on the also-rans of corporate reprehensibility.
Students Aren't Allowed To Touch Real Rocks
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He gives each of them a high chance of leaping out of their seat and marching to the stage in triumph.
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The veteran came leaping in, lashing out with his gigantic weapon, striking nothing.
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And he put on a virtuoso display of leaping.
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The next thing I knew, a sopping-wet golden retriever was leaping and bounding beside me as I gasped and my heart pounded into my throat.
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In contrast to Attenborough, the boyishly eager Irwin bounded into the frame like Tigger, leaping after the crocs and bantering at full volume: “Crikey!”
Unfair Dinkum
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More striking, "The Death of Empedocles" shows the philosopher leaping into Mount Etna he goes down, as Pythagoras comes up!
Return to the Grim and Dark
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A skydiver made history by becoming the first man to break the sound barrier after leaping from 128,097ft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leaping from rock to rock, she sprinted for nearly a mile, leaving no discernible footprints to mark her passage.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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More striking, "The Death of Empedocles" shows the philosopher leaping into Mount Etna he goes down, as Pythagoras comes up!
Return to the Grim and Dark
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But she had arrived now, leaping lithely out of a taxi in a shimmer of light blue voile.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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But the frogmen were quicker than she was, leaping over her head and catching hold of the trees, waiting for her to pass by, like it was some game.
Slice Of Cherry
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‘Because he's my best friend, you dingbat,’ I cried, leaping to my feet.
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Police confirmed that one woman died when she missed the rescue blanket after leaping through the smoke and flames.
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It was an agile climber, with long hind limbs for leaping, nails on its digits, and a grasping big toe.
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But what is all that leaping into each others' arms, Peli with his legs wrapped round Jairzinho's waist?
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While they continue to counsel caution and bipartisanship on the part of Democrats, other senators are leaping into action.
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The spin and "whizz" of his reel, the rush of a brown mountain stream with its fringe of silver birch and stunted alder, the white side of a leaping salmon, and the gasp of that noble fish towed deftly into the shallows at last, afforded him a natural and unmixed pleasure.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
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It was definitely a tease, with only one true 'wowser' action image (that of Kenobi and Qui-Gon leaping to a nearby platform while in combat).
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Oh, when he ran with me up the long-grass slopes, and down the long-grass slopes, it was like hurdling in a dream, for he cleared the grass at every bound, leaping like a deer, a rabbit, or a fox-terrier — you know how they do.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Where else could a blonde giant with muscles of tensile steel and overleaping ambition go, carve out an empire and boastfully display his Aryan might as a symbol to the world of what strength, discipline and power can achieve?
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In a trailer for the feature-length documentary the men, who are not identified, are seen leaping from radio masts.
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Consequently I was annoyed to hear the fanfare and surprised to see enormous flames leaping very near.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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‘Sorry for not leaping for joy,’ he grouched in an annoyed fashion.
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Curtis Rivers climbed to 15,200 ft in a hot air balloon before leaping from the basket attached to a 35 ft bungee cord.
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On the other hand, I'd miss all the joy of leaping for the sky that Jackie and Kristin demonstrate so well.
Concours - French Word-A-Day
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Morley (1597) speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
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In the intervals of pandemonium, each chattered, cut up, hooted, screeched, and danced, himself sufficient unto himself, filled with his own ideas and volitions to the exclusion of all others, a veritable centre of the universe, divorced for the time being from any unanimity with the other universe-centres leaping and yelling around him.
CHAPTER XIV
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At his subsequent trial for threatening language and behaviour, he attacked the prosecution counsel after being found guilty, leaping over a bench and executing a flying kick of his own.
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Six beautiful blue-eyed dogs leaping, yapping and raring to go.
The Sun
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And there are some who injure themselves through the unmeritorious deeds of hanging themselves, leaping from cliffs, eating poison and unhealthy foods.
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Cantona's time at United was a mixture of the sublime and the combustible - unable to ignore a fan's slur about his native country, he aimed a kung fu kick at the man during a match, leaping salmonlike over the gate.
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Depending on weather, sea state and our selected altitude, we can ‘see’ a weekend fisherman in his tinnie, a pod of leaping dolphins or a submarine's periscope, far beyond our binocular-assisted visual range.
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The lazy summer scene was a very poor objective correlative to my current mood of leaping anxiety and jangled suspense.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Glass structures fascinate me, and I'd like to work with that someday, to create a dolphin leaping out of the water or a whale breaching, something like that.
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A young Vixen, in this preludial scene played by a child, frisks in, startling a frog, who leaping to safety, lands on the forester's nose.
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One shell beyond it, one shell short of it, then whizz-BOOM Burst rafters leaping upwards and a sheet of uralite skimming down the air like a nicked playing-card.
Homage to Catalonia
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That same morning, I was fighting a leaping tarpon on a tropical flat in southern Belize.
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It was a strange and frightful spectacle — the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men — half-men, I should call them.
Chapter 26
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He ran through the gate, down the lane and across to the dirt track faster and faster, leaping and jumping.
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Leaping down the bank beyond the glutted passage, he gained the hard-footing of the sled-trail and made better time.
THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
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They were bundles of live springs, twisting out of her paws, dancing over her back, leaping, kicking, tumbling as she had never seen a kitten do in all her richly kittened experience.
Roof and Meadow
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After dinner they would sit together on the veranda, watching the moon rise over the rim of that wonderful valley, listening to the tree-toads in noisy convention or hearkening to the "plunk" of a trout leaping in the river below.
The Long Chance
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Police confirmed that one woman died when she missed the rescue blanket after leaping through the smoke and flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find that people have difficulty understanding that broad statistical generalizations don't justify leaping to conclusions about individuals.
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She fell almost immediately after leaping onto the balance beam and then had to poise herself moments later as she nearly went off again.
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And get the answers before leaping into the unknown.
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On April 13, a man in black with a curved sword jabbed at the ATM, then smashed his way through the glass front door, then roamed around, leaping over counters and jabbing at more things with the sword before departing empty-handed (and bleeding).
Creative Loafing Atlanta
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I have an indelible memory of a dozen of them leaping a fence in turn as they withdrew from sight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even Wayne Rooney, who like all top players has "a picture in his head" – a three-second flash-forward of leaping possibilities – seems against Barcelona to have a picture only of looming disaster and catastrophic accident, flying around the pitch in a psychic panic looking for smouldering plug sockets, unsnuffed candles, ladders that wobble.
Barcelona are just as processed as the premier burger on the menu | Barney Ronay
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When the coyotes howl it seems they are beyond the edge of the world, surely falling… or leaping over the plate's rim, taking their sad decrescendos with them.
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One of a series of works that depict the outline map of Wales as a leaping woman.
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We played it on a bigger stage as well, and our romantic lead, the actor who played Cornelius Hackl, had more room to move about, diving over and behind furniture, throwing himself across the floor, running, leaping, collapsing in dizzied heaps, and showing off all the tricks he'd learned from watching Dick Van Dyke reruns all the time when he was growing up.
Lance Mannion:
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It would have been impossible to hear any explanation; but the five minutes were over, and the horns had ceased, and there remained only the noise of a singular leaping of feet, explained perhaps by a possible pillow-fight, that kept the family below partially awake until the bells and cannon made known the dawning of the glorious day, – the sunrise, or "the rising of the sons," as Mr. Peterkin jocosely called it when they heard the little boys and their friends clattering down the stairs to begin the outside festivities.
The Peterkin Papers
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She could feel the words inside of her, leaping to get out like wolfhounds tug at their leashes when they smell prey.
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Are there aerodynamic effects in leaping prosimian primates?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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Bulldogging or steer wrestling is a timed event, a series of rapid actions beginning with the dogger leaping from his horse to grasp the steer by the horns.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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I will tell you now that I shot only once in my military career, and that in so doing I murdered the woolen hat of my sergeant which he had lost leaping into a nearby defilade.
The light that draws the flower
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Squirrels were leaping and cavorting after each other, rocking the boughs, chittering in jubilee.
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the footpads leaping from the darkness and Colum's cold despatch of two of them.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Consequently I was annoyed to hear the fanfare and surprised to see enormous flames leaping very near.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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This body of work idealizes the places I explore throughout Europe as enchanting lands of fantasy and fairy tale: stony and mineral-stained French farmhouses, creaking and battered old windmills from Greece, Spain and Holland, suspended white rabbits leaping through the air, and things that, if just for a moment, turn our dreams of sweet old world romanticism into something precious we can hold and keep.
Susan Fogwell: An American Sculptor in Holland
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They dodged around trees, leaping over fallen logs.
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His hand smacked the roof of his car with a crack that sent a bank-strolling moorhen leaping into the river in alarm.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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She is constantly on the move, leaping up or squirming in her seat when she has a point to make, or a writer to quote.
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said Richard, awkwardly leaping from ice floe to ice floe in the stream of the old man's consciousness.
NEVERWHERE
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Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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Police confirmed that one woman died when she missed the rescue blanket after leaping through the smoke and flames.
Times, Sunday Times
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You begin changing what you can about yourself to slake the thirst of a grasping world, and to settle the demons of insecurity leaping at your psyche.
The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
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This appears to have been subsequently forgotten, as we find later physicists questioning the possibility of the spark leaping over any interpolar distance.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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Whereas I was under the impression that the festival's disparate films and bands and wrestling riots -- leaping across styles and categories and burning more than a few brains along the way -- were nitroglycerin blasting cohesion to smithereens, my next shot of Sailor Rum steered me to the ship of truth.
Stewart Nusbaumer: Royal Flush Festival: One of a Strange Kind
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Meanwhile, blurting occurs when Republicans can't keep bad words from leaping out between their gums.
Statesman.com - Highschool
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Macalister says that the muscle is especially developed in leaping animals such as the kangaroo, jerboa, macrocelides.
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His crunching forehand winner on the last point sent him on a joyous, leaping celebration, and with lucrative reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hoo!" shouted the black, leaping from the ground, and then bursting out with a strange noise something between a rapid repetition of the word wallah and the gobbling of a turkey-cock; and then seeing that the boys laughed he repeated the performance, waved his clumsy spear over his head, and made a dash at the bullocks, prodding them in the ribs, administering a poke or two to the horses, and sending them off at a gallop toward the port.
The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range
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On the night Joe died, they found the ladders partly pulled down, despite them normally being pushed up at a height only accessible by leaping up a nearby wall.
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But New England go for it on fourth down, Brady taking the snap and then leaping with impressive athleticism straight over his center, reaching the ball out as he plunges head-first into the endzone.
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All the Arbroath smokies, the oak-smoked kippers, the tinned pilchards, the wild salmon leaping up the glens -- all that purine.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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All day long the happy pair enjoyed each other's company aloft, leaping from corn-ear to thistle-head, from thistle-head to poppy, and back again to corn-ear, feasting, frivolling, stalking bluebottles.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
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Agile elegance marked the virtuoso bursts of double stopping, the leaping pitches, the darting scales.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other animated features include a fish swimming up a waterfall, only to be snatched up in the jaws of a bear, a koala climbing up and down a eucalyptus tree and a penguin leaping off an iceberg you can read here how islanders in the South Atlantic rescued thousands of endangered northern rockhopper penguins, which were caught in thick oil slicks.
Earth Day's 41st anniversary celebrated by Google
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The party spread itself abroad , in a fan shape, shouting and leaping to and fro.
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They fight him with the help of high-tech gizmos and near-superhuman feats: surviving car chases, leaping from a second-story window, dodging a syringe full of tetrodotoxin, “over a thousand times more lethal than cyanide.”
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The hind limbs of galagos are longer than their forelimbs, which makes them very adept at leaping.
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According to legend, he escaped by leaping from the cliffs into the sea.
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Even the title had a Rayner story lurking behind it: "Now with wings" was the slogan used to promote a new sanitary towel with flaps in the 80s, one of only two TV commercials she ever agreed to do – because, as Sandi Toksvig explained, Claire was fed up with "airy-fairy adverts with women leaping around in trousers or diving into swimming pools".
Claire Rayner memorial fundraiser draws star-studded cast
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Leaping at this golden opportunity, Frankenstein repairs Christina's scars, brings her back to life and puts Hans' soul in the young girls body.
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As they moved higher, a leaping streamlet came down from the heights to meet them, growing narrower the farther up they went.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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I set out at a full-tilt scamper, leaping over the tops of pedestrians and passing cars in search of a victim for my rustling.
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It sort of reminded me of when you see powerlines shorting out, or see a lot of sort of slow sparks leaping out from this central point.
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There was no joyous celebration, no leaping up and down and waving arms in the air.
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Hiking a slope to the east, I rose above one of the world's great mountain scenes, trout leaping in the lazy creek and a breeze ruffling the spruce trees.
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The woman obeyed, digging her toes into the evasive muscle-pads for the quick effort, and leaping upward, one hand twined in the wet mane, the other hand free and up-stretched, darting between the ears and clutching the foretop.
CHAPTER IX
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James sprang, uncoiling, leaping from his perch toward his best friend.
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It must have been a case of the dreaded leaping fantods.
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Without crooking, his right arm swept out and down, the heavy caulking-mallet leaping from his hand.
CHAPTER 28
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Without interfering with the ape, the researchers used a forceplate to record the forces exerted by the gibbon's feet as it leapt, and two high speed cameras to record details of its body position, and the angles of its legs, body and arms. his revealed that the gibbon uses four distinct modes of leaping, categorised as the orthograde single footed take-off, the orthograde two footed take-off, the orthograde squat jump and the pronograde single footed take off.
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Even Fritz appeared to be impressed with the belief that the shikaree was the most important personage in the party: for every time that the latter descended from the cliff the dog had paid his "devoirs" to him, frisking around, leaping up, and looking steadfastly in his face, as if congratulating him on being their deliverer!
The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
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It cheered one up in the storm, and the lilt of it kept time to the leaping kind of gallop which is the easiest way to run on snowshoes: "Bye, baby bunting; bye, baby bunting -- Hello!
Wilderness Ways
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Or other effects such as purring, growling or meowing, and even leaping about.
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A beautiful terzetto describes with inimitable grace the gently sloping hills covered with their verdure, the leaping of the fountain into the light, and the flights of birds, and a bass solo in sonorous manner takes up the swimming fish, closing with "the upheaval of Leviathan from the deep," who disports himself among the double-basses.
The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
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A shoal of silver-skinned mullet skip out of the boat's way, one leaping four foot clear into the air.
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Imagine a skinny version of Johnny Wilkinson in full evening dress leaping about beating the living daylights out of four timps with an ecstatic grin on his face... nice picture, no?
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