How To Use Wigged In A Sentence
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Could be that, or maybe she's a little wigged out working in an office full of blabbermouths.
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We're sitting in the middle of a gay pub, and - typically for a bunch of straight guys, I muse - they haven't twigged at all.
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The wigged gentleman sitting opposite, still looking at the ceiling of the court.
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And according to a costuming chap I once earwigged on, Martin Shaw rolls up his sleeves in every production because he believes his forearms to be particularly attractive.
Spooky
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I tried to get the money off him later, told him she'd changed her mind, but unfortunately he twigged and---" I laughed.
GO!
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When I saw it, around age 13ish, it wasn't long after I'd finally twigged that my parents had raised me as a boy for no reason other than their own misogyny.
"I pledge to you all that you wish, the moon and the stars."
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
Burlesques
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Ancient French tragedy, red-heeled, patched, and be-periwigged, lies in the grave; and it is only the ghost of it that we see, which the fair Jewess has raised.
The Paris Sketch Book
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It shows a gruff, bewigged figure holding a sheet of music.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anne and Jane cringed by the doorway as they watched a frazzled looking, bewigged physician chase Katherine around the chamber with the offensive bowl and sharp instrument.
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I swear she swigged the stuff from a flask in her purse.
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Mr. Darnay tells Sydney Carton, the wigged gentleman who resembles him (and who is an attorney working for the defense), to tell Miss Manette that he is deeply sorry to have been the cause of her agitation.
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Firstly, thanks to her advice I've twigged how to post images via an ftp program and secondly, due to my lack of knowledge, I no longer need a haircut as I've torn most of my hair out during the day.
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Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
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They moved into the dining room, where Corinne paused before an oil portrait of a periwigged gentleman in a ruffled neck cloth.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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The only portrait I'm really familiar with is the one in the National Gallery where he's wearing a hat, but others show him clearly bewigged.
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It might have begun earlier, in the time Seyavi of the campoodie tells of, when antelope ran on the mesa like sheep for numbers, but scarcely any foot-high herb rears itself except from the midst of some stout twigged shrub; larkspur in the coleogyne, and for every spinosa the purpling coils of phacelia.
The Land of Little Rain
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The result is a clear, gluggable, star-bright jug of wine - and the contents of the glass can be swigged too, once the sediment has settled.
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I earwigged into a conversation with her last season and she told me what a beautiful horse it was.
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He took the canister from the campesino's hands, wiped the neck with his sleeve and swigged from it.
DESPERADOES
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As bad as we've got it here in GA with Sonny "Go Fish" Perdue, at least he never "wigged out" and left without telling someone.
Sanford says he was in Argentina, not on Appalachian Trail
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Suppose he was to do all this, and besides to blow upon a plant we've all been in, more or less -- of his own fancy; not grabbed, trapped, tried, earwigged by the parson and brought to it on bread and water, -- but of his own fancy; to please his own taste; stealing out at nights to find those most interested against us, and peaching to them.
Oliver Twist
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Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?
Saint Ronan's Well
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He pulled out all the stops for the post-Super Bowl return of "Glee" from its two-month hiatus, including an opening number in which guys did tricks on bikes while the blue-wigged Cheerios pranced around in cone bikini tops tricked out with sparklers.
'Glee' post-Super Bowl episode: We watch so you don't have to
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A mother, who did not want to be named, said four girls were attacked by a fellow student in their same year who "wigged" out.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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It was only in the car on the way home that I twigged that of course the prices will be going up at the beginning of January so it would not be cheaper at all.
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Exhaling good old inland American Anglophobia, he mocks "those periwigged lords of London, who wore their laces and took their snuff and kept their mistresses" and lent their own names to Bedford, Halifax, Pelham and the like.
A Long Way From Dullsville
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Jo swigged hard on her drink and gazed at him, almost stupefied by those characteristics which rendered him familiar.
BEHINDLINGS
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It effectively captures the tragedy and comedy of this scene as the emigrants, blonde and bewigged, scamper across the hills.
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I dutifully swigged successive glasses of the Albariño with my codfish confit one night, and again with a thrombotic dish of grilled skate and veal sweetbreads the next.
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He pulled out all the stops for the post-Super Bowl return of "Glee" from its two-month hiatus, including an opening number in which guys did tricks on bikes while the blue-wigged Cheerios pranced around in cone bikini tops tricked out with sparklers.
'Glee' post-Super Bowl episode: We watch so you don't have to
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For most people the term ‘common law’ summons up quaint images of wigged British judges and piles of dusty law books.
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Extras glance uncertainly at the camera, and at one stage a bewigged gentleman, bent double, is seen scampering out of shot.
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The bewigged Warhol predicted he would not survive the hospital when he went in for a routine operation, and he was right.
Regina Weinreich: Andy Warhol's Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum and Remembered at the New York Public Library: Please Sign My Banana
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Who most smartly twigged the resonance of the party invitation was probably the square-shouldered flat‑nosed puncher Quarry, a competent but inconsistent operator, and one who could usually be relied upon to succumb when it mattered most.
The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
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He gained his end; saw the new will signed; earwigged the lawyer; and kept a copy of it.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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When I did a search on HuffPo for "spinal tap unwigged," it asked me "did you mean spinal tap unwiped?
Sandy Kaczmarski: Unwigged and Unplugged: Spinal Tap Unwiped
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The bewigged barristers look almost out of place at their modern light oak benches beneath suspended lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lincoln was fond of "Father Neptune," as the president called Gideon Welles, the white-bearded, absurdly bewigged former newspaper editor.
Civil War Diaries, Blue and Gray
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I fancy I had been making queer faces enough, and perhaps talking to myself, When I saw myself used in this manner, I held out my clenched fists straight before me, stooped my head, and, like a ram when be makes his race, darted off right down the street, scattering groups of weatherbeaten lairds and periwigged burgesses, and bearing down all before me.
Redgauntlet
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Oddly, despite his astonishing sense for what is on the radar of pop culture, Fred hasn't quite twigged that its a little hard to create an air of mystery over release dates and album titles when Amazon is already carrying the information.
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The thinking being that SEO experts have to an extent manipulated results and 'twigged' google algorithm to such an extant that google are now playing a more actuve role, actively intervening and effectively giving a 'yay' or
Poynter Online
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The shore on this side of the break-water is sheer and tumbles down to a reef of broken rocks and large kelp-wigged boulders.
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Random people preceding me were confronting various BBC folk and questioning them, and I dutifully earwigged.
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The Closer was okay last night, though I twigged to Tom Skerritt pretty much from the beginning.
Be Seeing You : Bev Vincent
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It was as the Daily Chronicle interviewer was leaving that Khama gently wigged him with humorous but earnest words of warning.
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Uliba went on sobbing, and Masteeat frowned at me as though becoming aware that the family squabble was being earwigged by this foreigner.
Flashman on the March
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I know that the rules have gotten mighty complicated but surely the Chelsea players should have twigged that players are frequently booked for goal celebrations?
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He swigged the dregs of his coffee, wiped the back of his hand across his moustache and typed in the headline.
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‘The council can't only be made up of people from the newspaper industry and our bewigged friends,’ he said.
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The photo had been altered so that between the doctors peering down at the operation is a wigged and gowned barrister.
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Suppose he was to do all this, and besides to blow upon a plant we’ve all been in, more or less — of his own fancy; not grabbed, trapped, tried, earwigged by the parson and brought to it on bread and water, — but of his own fancy; to please his own taste; stealing out at nights to find those most interested against us, and peaching to them.
Oliver Twist
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It's not just Damon Albarn who has twigged this, although one of the records I'm most looking forward to next year is the debut offering from his new band Rocket Juice and the Moon, which will feature Fatoumata Diawara from Mali.
The arts in 2012: the world goes pop
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Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
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Nobody among the press seems to know exactly why we have kept such a bewigged tradition, or "where they disappear to" afterwards.
Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
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Solicitors, silks, distinguished lady judges and gentlemen of the utmost dignity were arrayed before me, wigless yet somehow metaphorically bewigged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who most smartly twigged the resonance of the party invitation was probably the square-shouldered flat‑nosed puncher Quarry, a competent but inconsistent operator, and one who could usually be relied upon to succumb when it mattered most.
The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
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Fans fluttered, bewigged and powdered heads bowed and the graceful days when York was the metropolis of the North and England's sporting capital returned for five sparkling hours.
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She's six months pregnant and he still hasn't twigged.
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We follow two bickering brothers from their first encounter with the school's bewigged Master who does not spare the rod through their struggles with memorization and dripping quill pens.
Rescuing a Classic
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Once they twigged what was going on, these unwitting subscribers then found it ‘very difficult’ to opt out of the scheme.
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
Burlesques
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The pile was in half a minute pushed over to an old bewigged woman with eyeglasses pinching her nose.
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As you may have twigged, there is a strong sense of propriety in Lauren, which is rather endearing in one so young.
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Horror films had been at it since the 1930s but the big change began in the 1970s, as executives twigged that there might be added mileage in follow-up stories.
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max
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The industrialists are dressed as bewigged aristocrats of pre-revolutionary France.
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We ate dried peaches, swigged iodized alpine water, and stared up at the pyramid-shaped northwest buttress of Cloud Peak.
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Baronet descended in state, leaning upon the arm of the Apollo in plush and powder, who closed the shutters of the great coach, and mounted by the side of the coachman, laced and periwigged.
The Newcomes
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Rows of polystyrene heads, faceless but exuberantly bewigged, stare eyelessly down from shelves.
Times, Sunday Times
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They consisted of an elderly, bewigged, and powdered little Italian, his German wife, a much-berouged lady of large proportions and flaxen hair, with a poodle.
From Paris to New York by Land
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She is now in rehearsal for a revival of David Hirson's 1991 play La Bête, in which she plays a princess in 17th-century France, fully bodiced and bewigged.
Joanna Lumley in La Bête
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An opportunity arises to make money from drycleaning when Ed cuts the hair of a camp, bewigged would-be entrepreneur.
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Then I twigged that they were illegal immigrants.
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All the people whose portraits are hanging up, beruffled, dignified, calm, and periwigged, on the old walls of Edgeworthstown certainly had extraordinarily strong impressions, and gave eloquent expression to them.
Castle Rackrent
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He rolled his eyes as he swallowed and swigged the dregs of his espresso.
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I guess we should have twigged then that something funny was up, and if we didn't (which we didn't) we should have spotted that both products were on the same page.
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Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
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The town council should face facts, it is little more than a parish council and the need for a bewigged town clerk and a deputy has long gone.
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In her one good scene, a bewigged, bedizened Crawford chases a properly terrified teen away from her quarry, shouting at her.
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'It was hardly undercover/he went on. 1 just went to a few games, drank in a few pubs and earwigged a few conversations.
Be My Enemy
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Rhodri then twigged and had a good chuckle about it.
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Grace Brothers-style wigged mannequins of old have been dumped in favour of futuristic metallic props with clothes displayed in boutiquey clusters.
John Lewis profits bounce back as store defies gloomy climate
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At the end of a hard day, a rescue worker picked up a near-empty gin bottle and swigged the remainder.
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He twigged they wanted someone who'd appear to be ‘not that sort of chap’ to provide some much-needed grit in the mix and declined politely.
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'It's amazing how quickly she was able to locate information on Jared Salvatore once she twigged we had the book from reception with his name blazed all over it,' Havers reported, 'and she's managed to unearth all sorts of useful details on Anton Reid.
With No One as Witness
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows -- the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), -- the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of London's Wit and
Burlesques
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I've just twigged that it always coincides with someone entering next-door's house.
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Church of England bishops were formerly also bewigged, but abandoned the practice around 1840.
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Sylvia, who'd bought a bottle of wine, carried the dog under one arm while she swigged vino with her other.
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A chemist who swigged vodka at work was let off with a reprimand after she cleaned up her act.
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The clowns are neither the bewigged bozos who gave you nightmares as a child nor the bemasked Italian Harlequins that gave you nightmares as a college student, but instead red-nosed, wordless caricatures that embody certain Metro tropes like Guy From Baltimore Who Hits on All the Ladies (Jon Reynolds) or Uptight Intern With a Laugh Like a Fire Alarm (Micael Bogar) or Tourist Who Apparently Has Never Before Seen a Map (Lenore Sack).
Theater review of 'Separated at Birth' at Mead Theatre Lab
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The wigged gentleman sitting opposite, still looking at the ceiling of the court.
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Baubled, bejeweled, bewigged, the city spends a few weeks of every early spring behind the glittering masks of Carnavale and the glamorous facade of the Venice Film Festival and the rest of the time getting ready for the party.
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He would talk about anything but dentistry apparatus while I was in the chair - probably because he twigged quite quickly that conversation about dentistry made me cry.
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We swigged cheap champagne from a shared bottle and fought running snowball battles with the neighbourhood kids.
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She sat near her son in court as he stood crying in the dock before the bewigged judge, who told him that he faced a ‘substantial sentence of imprisonment’ and that he was ‘lucky’ he was not an adult.
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I swigged down two white wines.
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The revetted fosse was on the map and if that had been twigged at the environmental impact assessment it would have saved a lot of grief.
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I swigged a strangely headless pint of stout, got to know my rather personable and engaging coursemates a little better, and generally had a grand time.
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One of the show's inspired moments, for instance, conjures up a "Wizard of Oz"/"Star Wars" mash-up, with Dorothy (a bewigged and befrocked Martin) yellow-brick-roading along with Yoda (a puppet), instead of Toto, in her basket.
Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center
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Sure enough, during their Saturday performance the rear doors are flung open to let in a procession of three horses with bewigged, costumed riders.
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They've obviously twigged that a lot of people will do the same as that package is rising the most from £33 to £36.
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We ate dried peaches, swigged iodized alpine water, and stared up at the pyramid-shaped northwest buttress of Cloud Peak.
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The lightning bolt twigged in several directions
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Normally, she didn't drink rum straight, but popping the top, she swigged half the contents of the bottle in one go.
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To his left, a be-wigged, rake-thin, old-beyond-his-years type kneels on a chintzy carpet looking across at his elder, not perhaps entirely in awe, but at least a genial grin creases his prematurely lined face.
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Then 4,000 bewigged and bedazzled ticket holders will enter the richly decorated ballrooms, dance floors, and courtyards of the historic building for a wild waltz of well-intentioned decadence.
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Walking toward the theatre, I see a limo pull up, a bodyguard jump out and escort a chubby, bewigged and bespectacled pop-culture idol from the street to the lobby.
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Rather than drawing some evolutionary ladder or tree, the best representation is a sort of multi-twigged bush.
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But now I am more unsettled than ever, and seriously wigged out.
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I think I've twigged who David Blunkett's greatest inspiration might be.
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I only saw the 1,000 or so sweaty gamer stereotypes posing with wigged models.
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Isn't there also an irony in one so avowedly anti-Establishment revelling in the pronouncement of a bewigged judge?
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I should have twigged that it was going to be an exciting ride after the driver twice started to set off, whilst my wife and friend were getting in the car.
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Anne gasped at such a rude phrase, but before she could chase after him in a fury, a soberly clad, bewigged gentleman approached her friend.
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Seyavi of the campoodie tells of, when antelope ran on the mesa like sheep for numbers, but scarcely any foot-high herb rears itself except from the midst of some stout twigged shrub; larkspur in the coleogyne, and for every spinosa the purpling coils of phacelia.
The Land of Little Rain
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Tickets to watch the highly entertaining proceedings - contested in deep seriousness, with bewigged judge and counsel - cost from 5.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rising up against a soothingly nondescript gray background, the bewigged La Tour appears before us in a simple jacket of blue velvet and lace frill.
A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging
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High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.
Max
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It is a humble beverage that unites the generations, a common bond that links today's thirsty men and women with those from centuries ago swigged down in tankards and flagons after a hard day in the fields.
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I dissolved some aspirin, swigged it, and then sat back to enjoy the first of several hot rum toddies, sipping gratefully, huddled by the big radiator in the kitchen.
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In the end it was her mum who twigged and dobbed me in.
Times, Sunday Times
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It just looks out of focus but its still watchable, like a second generation vhs copy (without the picture roll and wigged out colour).
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Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?
Saint Ronan's Well
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You said you couldn't stop thinking about me, and I suddenly twigged.
RESCUING ROSE
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If ya reckon I have gone off, nuts, done me fkn crier, wigged out, flipped me lid, chucked a tanty, spat the fkn dummy just see what happens if it gets moved without my fkn god dam I am a effin god sign off
Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that went better than expected.
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Anyway, and what was it like when Britney "wigged" out?
CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2007
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It's perhaps not all the wigged one's fault, though.
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Conservative Kento was a late bloomer in terms of sexual orientation, not even considering the possibility that he was gay until he met cynical, campy Akira, who probably twigged to his gayness in the womb.
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I swigged the dregs of my coke, crunching what remained of the ice cubes.
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Chairmen splashed us as they passed; and impudent dandies powdered and patched and laced and bewigged like any fizgig of a girl would have elbowed us from the wall to the gutter for the sport of seeing M. Radisson's moccasins slimed.
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
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The industrialists are dressed as bewigged aristocrats of pre-revolutionary France, with Hearst as Cardinal Richelieu.
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The pompous, respectable, full-wigged folios, with their long lists of subscribers, and their magniloquent dedications, find their permanent abiding-places in noblemen's collections, where, unless -- with the _Chrysostom_ in Pope's verses -- they are used for the smoothing of bands or the pressing of flowers, no one ever disturbs their drowsy diuturnity.
De Libris: Prose and Verse
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His bewigged portrait hangs importantly in the house.
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Earl looked down at the smoky glass tumbler braced in the palm of his hand and swigged down the last sip of whiskey.
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In all probability, you'll have twigged the answer even faster than you could say "don't insult my intelligence": 35% isn't "most people" so it's a lie.
George Osborne's talk of percentages and billions will wash over most of us
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Your icon has finally twigged with me about the Humperdinck.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M SAYING THIS...but...
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the judges all wigged and robed
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The bewigged statue of that landowner, sitting in his Jacobean-style chair, gazes uninterrupted across this remote part of the valley.
Country diary: Bere Alston, Tamar Valley
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And my sister was kind of wigged out like, "I don ` t want to address the whole Santa Claus thing with him like this.
CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007
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Remember, this is the same crowd that wigged out about "black helicopters" but stuck its abnormally large nose into the Terry Schiavo business.
Congress overwhelmingly approves Iran resolutions
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Church of England bishops were formerly also bewigged, but abandoned the practice around 1840.
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The triffid-style photos have become a sensation on the internet after web fans twigged to them.
The Sun
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A bewigged clerk read out a royal welcome to 'our right, trusty and right well-beloved' lords, knights, citizens and burgesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like scatty professors who see things working in theory and wonder if they would also work in practice, they might have twigged that this huge hit to the public's pocket hasn't made much, if any, difference to consumption.
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I dissolved some aspirin, swigged it, and then sat back to enjoy the first of several hot rum toddies, sipping gratefully, huddled by the big radiator in the kitchen.