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Liam picked up the putter, felt its weight in his hand, swung it a few times like a cricket bat
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Aunt Billie was an interesting old bat
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off the bat, six months and
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Give the old bat
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He touched my right knee-cap with the end of his baseball bat
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He raised the bat and drew back behind his shoulder, aiming at my right kneecap
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CRAACK! The ball flew off the bat into shallow left field for a single
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I felt rather than heard the bat being swung with great power
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I stained to hear the bat striking the ball
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What a relief! I had stuck him out and the game was still tied and we were coming to bat
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I was due to come up fifth, so it didn’t look like I would have a chance to bat; at least not in this inning
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Here it comes; the wind –up, the pitch, sure enough a fastball, straight at Stewey’s head! Stewey ducked but forgot to drop his bat
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The ball hit the bat and trickled out in front of the plate
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Two on, two out, bottom of the sixth and it was my turn to bat!
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After that the rest of the damage didn't take too long and nothing was quite as shocking as seeing the Bechstein shattered down the middle by a tattooed gorilla with a baseball bat
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A goon in my house smashing things with a baseball bat
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His henchman Rafa wasn't there but I recognized baseball bat wielding henchman number two
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The question was though, would the heavy come back with his boss, with a baseball bat, or with both? Either way it wouldn't be easy
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He tried to bat her hand away, but he wasn’t fast enough
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Assume the first stage of the posture which by now will be familiar to you, bat this time bend your left leg until your heel touches your right buttock
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He turned to nie and asked for a bat, I went to
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leaned his entire weight on the bat while standing
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'I want the bat,
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The bat cost us a hundred and sixty,
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moved his bat in a smooth movement and connected
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Ali's bat had not hit the ball, but his pride
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hand and his cricket bat in the other
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owned a large bat factory in Kashmir
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He opened the wooden trunk and took out a bat wrapped in plastic
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Ish examined the bat
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Paras to bat, Ali to field,' Ish shouted after three overs
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Disappointed, he threw the bat on| the crease
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I know he wants to bat,' Paras said and gave Ali the bat
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Ali took the bat, walked to the crease without looking up
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But Laxman connected with the ball and bat
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to come back and bat
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The bat deflected
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Ish picked up a bat
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Ish dropped the bat on the
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Ish blocked him with his bat
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Ish struck the bat on the man's
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Omi had crushed the toes of the fourth man with the bat
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Ali lifted a bat from the floor
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Ali winced as his right wrist hurt when he lifted the bat
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laughed as Ali held up his bat
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'Oh, I am so scared of the bat ball,' Mama said and pretended to shiver in jest
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Slam! Ali struck the ball with the bat
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That means his ability to turn the bat at the right time is
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I’ll even let out my dragon and he’ll bat your nipples around with his flaming head
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old bat” – he indicated the mounted head over the fireplace – “nearly
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Something flying past, passing close to his face was a bat … the bat a vampire
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wooden bat square in the mouth
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loosened by the swat of the bat
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The faceless systems that underpin the digital communications revolution aren’t playing a straight bat
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What was that? Something flits past me, a high pitched noise – a bat! Now bats, there’re a different story, somehow magical
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struck with a baseball bat from behind
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Think of a bat hitting a ball
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energy built up at the end of the bat as it accelerates
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Suzie, Lian and Sam were hurling petrol bombs at the greenhouse, as Suzie bashed up the Abel Berries with a Baseball Bat
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catching gear, or felt the bat in my hands
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out of my bat bag
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I gripped the wooden bat lightly in my hands and swung at the air a few
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my hands a broken bat, splintered from where my hands gripped it to halfway up
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It was a composite bat that I had owned for over a year
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Maybe with a bat? His eyes opened, still
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The idea hit her like a bat
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THE STAIRS LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL SPEECHLESS, I SURPRESSED MY
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Roman went to the pen on his own during our at bat in the bottom of fifth
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Pat O'Brien did not hit a home run at his turn at bat but he did the next best thing
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As soon as that ball left the bat of Paul Ray Powell I saw Rich Hinton immediately turned his back to home plate and just start running backwards as fast as he could go
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“Then, don’t hang like that, like a bat, you almost killed me,” he
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even the slightest bat of an eyelid
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nosed mole, the pygmy, the sucker footed bat, and even
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bat ears, elegantly forged, projection out of the side of the head without revealing the face
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There before my squinting, blinking, sleep-blurry eyes stood Amadeus, with a bat’s head clamped between his teeth and the rest of the bat sticking out of his mouth, squirming and flapping like there was no tomorrow
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” My heart soared just too know that at least two of my friends were alive and well and were willing to bat for me and show me they cared
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It matters not whether he was infected by a bat, a gopher, or another rabid dog
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She had declined a Bat Mitzvah, which is the young girls version of the Bar Mitzvah, as she didn’t believe in God or religion, thinking to herself ‘…and now I’m here in my leathers, about twenty years later and still feeling crap about anything to do with synagogues and mounting the stairs to the …
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Abigail, his girlfriend was sitting on his bed writing out her piece for her Bat Mitzvah
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Rabbi Hershaw was adamant that if Abi wanted a Bat Mitzvah later on she would have one
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The telephone call ended with Carl thanking the Rabbi profusely, enquiring as to what kind of gift would be suitable and how much he was looking forward to the visit and the Bat Mitzvah
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I want you to, as I said before, create a diversion at the Bat Mitzvah, then I want you to rip open the lining of the scroll covers and take out the papers that have been secreted in them
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The tension caused by Abigail’s Bat Mitzvah was strung out like a wickedly sharp glinting thin steel wire across the boroughs
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Consequently, she couldn’t decide if it was Sunday, when Abigail said she was going to come over for her after Bat Mitzvah or Saturday, when she had to get dressed and wait for the taxi to pick her up and take her to the synagogue
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She knew what clothes to wear, which is where the confusion really lay, because she remembered wearing them recently, so she must have been to the Bat Mitzvah already
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Abigail because it was the day of her Bat Mitzvah, and Alex because he knew it was going to be wrecked and he would have to rip off the most holy of books and rip apart the scroll covers
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They bought it, Bond and Bat Mitzvah day loomed closer
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One night I responded to a rape in progress and went like a bat out of hell down a highway when someone started knocking on the rear window behind me
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This one went like a bat out of hell with us just behind and following us a whole bunch of squad cars
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I had a cricket bat in my hands, which could have been defined as a weapon in my hands rather than a bat
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I closed my eyes and swung the bat into the air, not at all the way Egan had demonstrated moments ago
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I felt a thud as the ball connected with the bat
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Pushing on, almost at the farm gate, a bat unexpectedly flew out of a nearby bush, making me jump
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"Go sit on this yer frigid old bat!" he shouted, driving the tractor straight at her
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abdominal pain and stating her boyfriend had hit her with a bat
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the boy who hit her with a bat and about her relationship with
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After a lot of banging and crashing, the man finally reappeared and stood over her, a baseball bat in his hand, a sneer on his face
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The man moved around behind her chair, and she heard the bat thump to the carpet
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As it was, he moved behind her chair, then quickly reappeared with the baseball bat
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utterly bats, while the other half were most definitely hairy on the inside
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I'm hard to intimidate unless it's two goons in my house with sledgehammers and baseball bats threatening to break my children's’ bones
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She bats him lightly over the head with her napkin and laughs coyly; he turns to me looking distraught
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’ I assured him as Joris mutters something about my land legs being pretty good too – Gilla bats him over the head with the cloth she is holding, giggling at his comment
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We moved the bats and the ball baskets inside and
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Look at them, thirteen-year-olds holding their bats with
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Their bats will be replaced
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One or two monsters fluttered by, maybe bats, but I kept going up and up until at last I reached the oracle and sat on a rock, quite flushed with my achievement
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'Oh, really? Where, you will pull a hand-cart with these bats and balls?' Mama
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Ish dumped the bats for repair on the floor
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'We need six bats, and these need repairs,' I said
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He went to the box and checked the other bats for cracks
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insolence, Ish rued spoiling the boy with gifts - sometimes kits, sometimes bats
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Davie bats the ball back into the doctor’s hands
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He thinks out loud, communing with no one, with nothing that matters, revealing to the woods, the badgers and the bats a simple logic
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What was that? Something flits past me, a high pitched noise – a bat! Now bats, there’re a different story, somehow magical
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Old mitts and bats were stacked neatly against the bottom of the walls, and they
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slow the ball down for their bats
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Peterman was 0 for his last 15 at bats,
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It was their nine-hole hitter who had struck out his previous at bats and
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The others carried baseball bats
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I knew bats could “see”
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Bats squeals could be heard like seagulls near the shore
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Halon prayed that the bats would not descend into this tunnel and attack them, digging their tiny razor sharp claws into their skin, biting their faces
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Bats were evil itself to Halon with their leathery wings and their stinking fur
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No more bats were encountered and Jayana estimated they had reached half way before they took rest in a large cavern
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Terry had always been terrified of bats, ever since he’d climbed into the loft as a teenager, disturbing a roost
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It wasn’t night falling, but thousands of fruit bats descending on the law enforcement group
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George had discovered when driving through his banana plantation that the bats seemed to follow him, and were making a meal of the banana crop
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He had finally realised that it was the sound the Shu-Roos made on the front of his four-wheel drive that attracted the bats
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They suspected he would not trouble them anymore, even if he did survive the Hendra Virus the bats were carrying
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To the moles and bats by the way
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“Uncle Bruce told me he’s going to bring home some bats
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Bruce’s collection of preserved bats was at the back of the room
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Example: A marine in uniform was beaten with baseball bats in the state of Washington
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“You should have seen Bruce fishing for bats down there in that jungle, Juliet
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He would skip the meteorite and the bats and concentrate on the Natives
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22 on their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also
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The blind animal uses radar to move around, similar to bats on your planet
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is something good about mosquitoes: they feed frogs, birds, bats etc
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Above, I saw some bats flying
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As the bats
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Meanwhile, thirty-six footmen with the faces and wings of bats came in to hold the long cloaks of each of the priests, as they headed for the Cursed Temple—which was annexed to the headquarters of the church—
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In the temple, they put on masks of animals (wolves, bats, felines, and snakes) and the Highest Priest, taking a huge, sharp sword, began a ritual of destruction for the purpose of causing the deaths of Yania and Kami, through the emanation of psychic waves of destructive hate
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It could have been bats, but they were not sure
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I appreciate the offer Bats, but it could take years
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Clubbed with bats, boomerangs, punches and kicks
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The attackers carried weapons of all sorts: Guns, axes, shovels, baseball bats, kitchen knives
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They were al armed with bal bats and bars
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A flurry of bats
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one and saw the KDM al pointing their bats at one of the bot-
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it hard with their bats
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Ultra with their bats, until Punk took out of his boomerangs and
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to bats, birds and fishes) with syn-
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Bailey is looking to buy baseball bats and ammunition
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ears to navigate like bats in the dark
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The eaves had many holes and a colony of bats had taken up residence under the roof
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minutes before the bats were expected
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As soon as the bats started to come out they would dive down and swoop up a bat for their evening meal
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Their hats and tight-fitting uniforms fell to the ground and two bats hovered briefly, then swooped off into the night
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Two bats hovered overhead
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They seemed sad, if bats can be sad
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Tendulkar is cross-dominant: He bats, bowls and throws with his right hand, but writes with his left hand
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Without warning a flock of vampire bats plummeted down from the shadows above
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Three more of the bats remained
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The top of his staff emitted a cone-shaped flame that scorched one of the circling vampire bats
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The last of the bats lunged at Rodnik
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A number of bats were attracted to his predatory aura
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The range of these bats covers much of Mexico and into
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in the US only see these bats from June through August, as
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Greater long-nosed bats feed primarily on the nectar, pollen, and fruit of cacti such as saguaro and organ pipe, and
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75″ long, these bats are considered large for North America! Isn’t that adorable?!
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Like a lot of nectar-feeding bats in the New World, the greater long-nosed bat has a long muzzle and a bit of skin that sticks up on the end, called a ‘nose leaf
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Sadly, the public’s fear of bats has lead to intentional destruction of the caves in which they sleep and raise their young
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Lesser short-nosed fruit bats have a long life span for such small mammals (one would fit in your hand); they’re estimated to live 20-30 years! Females appear to give birth year-round, and one male mates with several females
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These bats are also vulnerable to habitat loss, and there are some reports of them being hunted for medicinal purposes
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Reference: Food habits of Cynopterus brachyotis (Muller) (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in Peninsular Malaysia Interested in conserving this and other fabulous bats? Consider joining Bat Conservation International! Their work educates and helps to protect bats of all kinds, all over the world!
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One reason this long tongue might be advantageous is that it allows the bat to access flowers that other bats cannot, so this reduces competition for nectar between it and other nectar-feeders in the community
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The creature came playing through the skies on large bats with long white fangs; there must have been a dozen or so of these hideous creatures
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As the plants started eating the large bats, one by one, the plants ran their vines up the sides of the bats and snagged them like fish on a fisherman's hook
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The plants sucked and drank the blood of the bats, and chewed up their bones
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Meanwhile, the hooded mask man kept on ordering more bats to attack, but instead of attacking, the bats were outnumbered by the plants that Jane had summoned
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One by one, the plants ripped out the hearts and flesh of the bats and munched on their bones
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But David went on and told the crew that the bats had destroy the fuel tanks and the vessel would have to make an emergency landing, in the sea of the Azul
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Those old bats will believe you
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Leeches, spiders with super strong webs, lizards, monitors, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, fruit bats, birds, snakes—most of them deadly
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Then there were huge bats that were in groups of a thousand, carrying fighters on their backs; there were also huge cloud giants made of nothing more than clouds
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‘Surely you don’t think we’d leave the place open to wild birds, bats, possums and dogs?’
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‗It would be better if you apologise to this guy for attacking him,‘ Reginald said, watching Sebastian pick up one of the dropped bats
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He stared at the house for several minutes from the shelter of a hedge, panic rising in his chest and throat until he could bear it no longer and cycled away, tailbone tickling as if the bats of hell were overtaking him
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Across the road from the tavern stood a row of deserted huts, shaded by straggling palm trees, and occupied only by bats and jackals
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“He is dead man…Jones set his two bodyguards on his with baseball bats and they pummelled him until he collapsed
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Bats, cave crawlers and small voles and rodents
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Hundreds of bats flew around me and I snatched one out of the air holding it gently between my two hands before laying it aside
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Thinking about how easily a wildcat could snatch me for a snack as he walked by, I watched the bats whirl until their motion put me to sleep
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With a tentacle it batted him out of the way
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Paras batted a catch towards Ali, whose hands were busy tightening the cords
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Gina didn’t blush, only batted her eyes at the shower of compliments
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He was not able to wrest the dart gun from its grip, but it did fire wide when he batted at it and it might take Vic more than a second to get the next dart loaded
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He turned back around to continue his solitary drinking and the woman rushed off in a huff to sweep - in between assailing the other male patrons with honeyed words and batted eye-lashes, of course
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I batted at an insect as it caromed around my face
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I batted some of his blows aside, sidestepped others and countered with light scores where possible
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He batted playfully at my hand as I flipped the dial in search of an educational program
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Batted about in the West without much historical understanding
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Passersby looked at him with complete indifference; not a one batted an eyelid
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She taunted him, giving him the worst case of blue balls Toronto has ever seen, but refused sexual advances saying that she wasn’t the sort to engage in casual relationships, then batted her eyes in mock surprise when he suggested that he move in with her
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�I think we batted zero on this, Steve
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In her final throws, the dying girl batted a Sycler away
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Conal batted a couple from Piers’ shoulders, pulling his coat over his own head as protection
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Her eyes filled with tears she batted away
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” I said huskily and she batted her eyelashes “What kind of show did you have in mind?” She whispered
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Sergeant McKinistry batted the spear head away with his sword
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Maybe it was the place I belonged after all the crap we had went through and all the sites we had visited the place I needed to be was the place I hadn’t even batted an eye at… even, after all this time
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You are so understanding” She batted her eyelashes, gazing at him with adoration
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“Please, D’ven? Please, oh pretty please?” She batted her eyelashes at him and he sighed, but shook his head
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then batted it halfway to hell
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That had them smiling even more, as they batted their flirting eyes at me
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She batted at my shoulder
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In 1924 he batted
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In the opener, the Bucs whipped the Cincinnati Reds, 13-0 with Clemente going three for four while collecting five runs batted in (RBI)
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Clemente batted
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Even though Stargell batted
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as they batted their intellects back and forth across the dining table
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The score now read 7-6; he had just batted two players in from second and third, helping the team take over the lead
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His eight runs batted in broke a school record as he was carried on the shoulders of his ecstatic teammates, to the middle of the field
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GET OUT!’ He threw himself forward at the wall and batted his face against it
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“He probably had his horse abducted from beneath him by the leader of the pack,” mused Evans, “and we do know he was one who batted for the other side
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He batted at Gasbag’s head a couple of times, only vaguely hearing the voice in the back of his mind that said “Hold your temper, hold your temper, hold your temper…
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of him in that instant, his d’k tahg ready to push through Sheaar’s heart if he even batted an eye
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The ball dropped towards Garcia and he batted it away with his Pain/Catcher
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lightly batted a goat away as it started chewing on my tripod cover
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The scene was a little bizarre, but nobody batted an eyelid as he walked with his usual indestructible self-confidence through the park with Melissa in his arms
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She tried to unzip his trousers, but he batted away her hand
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Its large brown eyes batted as if it was trying to charm me
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I burst out laughing as it twitched his tiny ears and batted its eyes again
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He batted his head against the headrest and spoke with sharp words
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Scared, I batted her behind me, and the dog pushed me into the shop door
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Then she batted my hands away and dressed me
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Pretty please?” Hands in prayer position, she batted her clear green eyes
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’ I reached up and batted away a thick length of silk ribbon embroidered with poppies, then immediately regretted it
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I waited a moment before I went to her, just to be sure these were sad tears rather than angry ones which may result in my being batted away in a fury
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batted his eyes and offered a limp,
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"Promise?" Liam said and batted his eyes before
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batted his eyes and tried to look innocent
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He gestured to the phone pressed to his ear and batted off her words with a flick of his hand
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” She batted her eyes at me, showing off the vivid colors of eye shadow that streaked across her lids
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Eva flipped her hair and then batted her eyelashes at Bryce
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Then it grinned at me again, raised its paw and batted my hand
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Claire nudged him and batted those long eyelashes of hers
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The thought of having children, him going back to school, their renting a house in a terrible neighborhood–he’d never batted an eye
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Even ten years ago there probably would’ve been a hell of a ruckus over that, but these days no one even batted an eye
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He batted wildly at his target, shredding through marble columns in the process
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Every fucking sport that has a ball, or has something that is batted around
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I barely batted the javelin to the side with my sword before he was upon me
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He wheeled to face my charge, but I batted his sword away and with a roar of pure fury, I grabbed hold of him and threw him bodily away from Zarsha
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In dutiful fashion she batted her eyelashes at the man, who was slightly shorter than her and old enough to be her grandfather
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don’t want to,’ she said and batted her eyelids
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Lori’s features twisted harshly, “Enough of all this! I want to know what this little misbegotten adventure has all been about tonight!” She said, as she lifted the pistol, but Asia batted it away and slammed her fist into the pit of Lori’s stomach causing her to gasp for air
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He batted the blows of his new opponent aside and, with
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Women batted grudging lashes while the men stopped whatever it was they were doing and simply stared
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Thick black lashes batted twice before her mesmerizing blue eyes to focused on him
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She sniffed here and there, then batted the
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batted his eyelashes at Maddy as he got in
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She batted her eyelids and said: “Don’t stare at me, please
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Ralph batted the question off to Alan
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He hadn’t batted an eyelid when she had told him she had nowhere to stay
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Needless to say, no one in the place even batted an eyelid, but the South was so alien to us then that I would have believed it if someone had told us they served fried alligator toenail sandwiches down in Florida
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She batted it back
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Bruno flashed a light into one of Mackie’s eyes and said, “Concussion,” but the rest of her words were lost as Morales batted the doctor’s hand away and opened her eyes on her own
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When Yuki feinted, Mori only batted the sword away with the back of his hand
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She turned around in her chair to face him and batted
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Muttering under his breath, Colin batted it ahead of him as he stalked toward the edge of the room
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In that game he also recorded a two-run single, becoming the oldest player with a run batted in
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David Ortiz (Dominican Republic) has batted in 1,147 runs in his career with the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox since 1997
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Pujols shares the record for the most runs batted in during a World Series game – six – which he scored for the St Louis Cardinals in Game 3 of the 2011 World Series on 22 October
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His eyes swiveled and batted
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The colored men batted first
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The Count batted it away again
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They have a tough plastic or hide side to expose to the ground, or sand in this case, with a nylon lining and dacron batting
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During the rest of the session I pitched batting practice with great success
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Just pretend that you are pitching batting practice
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He pointed to the Australian team batting on the
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'Laxman and my batting styles are identical,' said another boy in the park
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He could be ready for a batting test anytime
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matter how many guys he throws out, or what his batting average is
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The batting cages hung on cables and could be
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‘He admitted it all without batting an eyelid! How
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Page after page featured adorable kittens batting at strings and showing off their fat fuzzy tummies, but nothing resembling my hiding, hissing kitten
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“You’re mean,” she said impishly, batting her eyelashes in mock flirtation
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“Forty two,” I said without batting an eyelid
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They scooped their wings, batting them madly and fanned their tails to drift slowly above the melee, tiny heads darting from side to side, scanning for the perfect morsel
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I feel its weight and the prick of talons and fling my arm forward to shake it off, my hand batting at it
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“You’d better hope Darcy is a hell of a woman because so far, she’s batting zero with me
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She opened the little box and peered at the brooch, resting on a bed of white cotton batting
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She was having trouble dealing with the fact that Derek was a player, let alone batting for the other team
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Even the weather folks sometimes risk their batting average to venture a percentage of probability that it might rain tomorrow
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tossing, eyelid batting, and body accentuating strokes, all to which he paid great
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” I said softly, batting my lashes at him and he paused then shook his head in resignation “Fine
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“That’s a little hard since she keeps batting her lashes at you right in front of me
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insulated with cotton batting
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• Use two or three pieces of polyester batting as stuffing for the pillow
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“Typical Boglehob,” croaked Dawes, batting away more chickens with his arms
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His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes
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Sir Donald Bradman, considered by many as the greatest batsman of all time, considered Tendulkar to have a batting style similar to his
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Since then Tendulkar's batting has tended to be less attacking
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Explaining this change in his batting style, he has acknowledged that he is batting differently because, firstly, no batsman can bat the same way for the entire length of a long career and, secondly, he is a senior member of the team now and thus has more responsibility
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He often bowls when two batsmen of the opposite team have been batting together for a long period, as he can often be a useful partnership breaker
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I was surely batting a
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I admire honesty in a man,” she said, batting
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Wind howled, and deep gloom, thick as mattress batting, cold as a hibernating toad, lay over the valley
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In clear, my batting average regarding sons and daughters is a zero
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agreed to this request without batting an eye
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His lifetime batting average was
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His lifetime batting average is
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He was the National League MVP in 1966 and four times batting champion in the senior circuit
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During the afternoon, while the children were having their nap, Aureliano Segundo sat on the porch and Fernanda pursued him even there, provoking him, tormenting him, hovering about him with her implacable horsefly buzzing, saying that, of course, while there was nothing to eat except stones, her husband was sitting there like a sultan of Persia, watching it rain, because that was all he was, a slob, a sponge, a good-for-nothing, softer than cotton batting, used to living off women and convinced that he had married Jonah’s wife, who was so content with the story of the whale
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In the beginning, I was batting a thousand
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That same day, he could come home and beat my Mom, without batting an eye
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It could be he changed horses in mid stream and had been batting for the other side
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In the final match when I was batting on 49 runs, I felt very thirsty
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I halted my batting in the middle of the match
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He was very carefree and without batting; even he did not know what was happening with him
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Sophia had wrapped her long braids around my knees, and I was batting away her hands as she tried to tie them together, “I need to pick up another one of my daughters across town and I’m going to be late
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There appeared to be a virtual batting cage off the left of
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Whenever I’d phone Jagdishbhai seeking time for an interview, he’d talk to me about my father’s batting instead
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Batting without the protection of a helmet was always a
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Sabina crossed into Mexico while Inacio slept, batting her eyes and pacifying the guards with her promiscuous clothes
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I remember batting painstakingly that day, whether to
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“Why should I have to?” She sped next to my head, batting wings against my ear
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3,298 games, went up to bat 12,364 times and hit for a base hit or better 3,771 times; this left him with a life-time batting average of
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Without batting an eye, she wrapped both arms around Norah
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"Oh?" Liam asked, batting his thick red lashes
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head and began batting him on the ear with his paw
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He slowly helped her negotiate the stairs, their progress somewhat hampered by the cats who were playfully chasing each other up and down the staircase, getting underfoot, and periodically batting at their mistress’s crutches with their playful paws
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They might be all batting for the same team, but most State officers thought less of the AFP—they were to be tolerated and only if absolutely necessary
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some body asked him a question, with out even batting his eye lid he said
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They cared for their own, that was for sure, but when it came to the billions of people living on—and in—Earth, they would kill without even batting an eyelash, if they even had any
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The crowds are noisy and wild, but you can leave with whoever you want, without anybody batting an eyelash
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Up until even a year ago, my great-aunt had managed all the hills in Jerome without batting an eye, but time seemed to be finally catching up to her
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I was able to provide details, answer questions and have her fill out a form – all without her batting an eye
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Patches begins batting it with her paw, and then chewing its edge
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victim, or a batting dummy but you are Jason's ex-wife and it is for reasons that are less savory then, say, mutual dislike
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Emory sent him a withering look and bumped into a woman with furiously batting eyelashes
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"Go away," he said, batting them aside
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Batting that whorl in the direction of some stately manors the Daitya began focusing on his sword
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non-striking end of the batting pitch
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"It was completely by accident and entirely your fault," Tracey said, not realising she was batting her eyelids at him
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There appeared to be a virtual batting cage off the left of the room
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“My body perhaps?” he said smiling and batting his
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the media then blithely returned to its normal diet of publicized disasters and fake violence without batting an eyelash
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Then his tenderness had sprung from a wealth of fond memories of childhood when his Gran had gamely bowled to his fantasy Colin Cowdrey batting
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She was acting as his fiancée not to enjoy the normal intimacies that accompanied it but to get the one thing that he was batting around the bush for—and what she had to have—; and that was her story on him
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“Stop it,” Emily said, batting behind her as she felt a horse smell her
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"Oh, Carl!" she moaned, batting long lashes and dropping a playful hand on his shoulder
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She smiled back at him, batting her eyes
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There’s a cricket game in the backyard, and who’s out there batting in her stilettos, all blinged up, exactly the same, but little Madeline from across the road
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In a fit of pique, someone had snipped the fur on his head down to the cotton batting
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Without batting an eye, and without pausing, he gently said in a way only Chris could, “You’re a package deal, babe
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After watching a few of his neighbors leaping out of the showers buck naked, yelping and batting at themselves, Joe finally took to carrying a broom into the shower each evening to clear the rafters of eight-legged intruders before he turned the water on
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It was way too short for me, the couch, but I really could've slept standing up without batting an eyelash
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When I went home the cats thought that the tubes coming out of my stomach were great cat toys and kept batting at them and trying to hang on them
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They’re batting a thousand
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She was sick twice in the bathroom, batting me away when I tried to hold her hair up for her
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He wouldn’t have been able to see as well, and the interior of the conning tower left a little something to be desired in terms of comfort and breathability when the big guns were in action, but at least the armor would have prevented his feeling as if the Tellesberg Krakens had decided to use him for batting practice
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“Oh, I love the horse,” I said, batting away my ill will
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I felt like I was in a batting cage facing an automated pitching machine set on kill
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I stood ankle deep in the muck of the swamp, batting at the cloud of mosquitoes that whined around my face and arms
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His batting average was down to
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When did they build it? You'd think each house would have a toilet, but oh no! It's just a stone's throw to the toilet, where I spent two minutes trying to find the light switch, and five minutes after that batting off a big moth while I tried to wash up!"
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And in out of the Dublin morn, sweeping through the front doors of the Royal Hibernian Hotel, along the entryway, and to the registry was a tall willowy man of some forty years, followed by five short willowy youths of some twenty years, a burst of bird song, their hands clapping all about on the air as they passed, their eyes squinching, batting, and flickering, their mouths pursed, their brows enlightened and then dark, their color flushed and then pale—or was it both?—their voices now flawless piccolo, now flute, now melodious oboe, but always tuneful
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“Fanny, I—” she began, ineffectually batting at clumps of mostly dried dung that clung to her coarse robe