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    propping up


    1. He’d been propping up the lousy Mayor for years, mostly because of his sense of duty to the Halflings of Thimble Down


    2. And I see them: outside, a traitor Dauntless man, propping up a woman with a bleeding leg


    3. I noticed the barman from lunchtime was no longer there; instead the bar was staffed by a couple of harassed looking girls, doing their best to serve the drinks, take meal orders and chat with the few customers who were propping up the bar


    4. It is the underlying realm of light that is the fundamental reality propping up our physical universe, says Haisch


    5. He raised his upper body slightly, propping up on his elbows to


    6. He was waiting on the pavement for her, one arm propping up a parking meter


    7. She read books of travel, she learned poetry by heart, she grew skilful at combining her studies with her cooking; and propping up Keats on the dresser could run to him for a fresh line in the very middle of the pudding almost without the pudding minding


    8. It took years of the landed gentry propping up lower class public figures like Adams, to turn the idea of rebellion into a popular cause


    9. One of those who supported it, leaving the burden to his comrades, advanced to meet him, flourishing a forked stick that he had for propping up the stand when resting, and with this he caught a mighty cut Don Quixote made at him that severed it in two; but with the portion that remained in his hand he dealt such a thwack on the shoulder of Don Quixote's sword arm (which the buckler could not protect against the clownish assault) that poor Don Quixote came to the ground in a sad plight


    10. especially the ears that struck her at the moment as propping up the brim of his round hat

    11. We went for a quick drink in the Granada Television bar and tried to catch the eye of a barmaid serving the actors who played Stan Ogden and Albert Tatlock, who were propping up the bar just as they’d done for years at the Rovers Return on the set of Coronation Street


    12. Candace’s voice ran out and she just sat there, hands propping up her head, staring hard at the table, silent


    13. "Oh, mercy! why do his ears look like that?" she thought, looking at his frigid and imposing figure, and especially the ears that struck her at the moment as propping up the brim of his round hat


    14. Speaker, I do not oppose this bill because it professes to give some relief to those merchants whose vessels sailed before the date of the proclamation, and which may have departed from a British port, prior to the 2d of February, 1811, but, sir, because I wish to rid the country of this whole consumptive system; and, if that cannot be done, I will not aid in propping up the President's proclamation, by taking from the judiciary of the country the power of deciding on its validity, which is one of the avowed objects of this bill


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