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There were a few wind wheels irrigating a few gardens, scrawny homes with scrawnier fruit shrubs around them
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He pulled at the tailgate, screwing up his scrawny, twitching features, and slowly
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He pulled at the tailgate, screwing up his scrawny, twitching features, and slowly but surely, emitting mineral groans and metallic shrieks, the metal and glass door began to inch upwards until, with the tailgate at seventy-five degrees, the little man was able to clamber onto the space made by the flattened seats, cross his legs, and utter a loud harrumph
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black nose all the way to the end of his scrawny grey tail
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as his four tired and scrawny legs could muster
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Compared to them she was as shapely as the average young tree trunk, perched up on long saplings, with long scrawny arms and insect bites for tits
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Though her body was thinned from her long years of slumber, Rafe could tell there was a definite toughness to every bit of her scrawny muscles
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I never understood why you bothered with a scrawny little wimp like me at all
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"I find that hard to believe," and painful, the scrounge he tried to save was female, a wasted, scrawny, scabby, blond cackler
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‘They’re a fairly scrawny bunch I grant you,’ he said,
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not all is lost to us,” Anon said, looking directly at the misshapen Elder Jakkar, and then the scrawny, little scrapper Kendal
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Before them had stood an attractive young man in all his naked glory; his once scrawny thighs now muscular and well shaped, his chest now broad and covered with hair
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What if they end up in a sorry state, looking like living skeletons? When the time comes for an audience before the king in due course I want them to look healthy and strong – not thin, sickly or scrawny; otherwise the king might feed me to the lions! ”
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Lifting a scrawny hand to touch his son’s shoulder, he barely had the strength to complete the action and he felt the energy drain from him
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Golden Frog was sporting a frog-like head but had a scrawny lion-cub body
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However, his body was all scrawny feline
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Nowhere in those memories could I place Vanessa or the scrawny little thing she had called Marley
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A scrawny piebald dog ran across the village street it stopped and barked at us then barred its teeth growling whilst strings of spittle foamed at its mouth we kept it covered as it turned and ran off
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It's scrawny throat throbbing
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falling out of its wings in places, and its long, scrawny neck brought a head to look at him with a pair
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Skinny and scrawny is now chubby and flabby but still as naked as the day we brought him home
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I looked down to see a gray cat with a raised, crooked tail, Smoky, a very scrawny, bedraggled Smoky, still rubbing against my legs
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One icy morning, John, the garbage collector, found a scrawny kitten nearly frozen to death between a cardboard box and a trashcan
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It was a scrawny thing,
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He took the scrawny chicken in his right hand, slid it under the
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As he tore at the flesh of the scrawny squab he'd found under a nearby tree, he brooded on his misfortune
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Interestingly towards the west of Owamboland called the Kaokoveldt the mountainous terrain prevented the armoured vehicles from operating so they conducted most of their operations on foot and got to be exceedingly fit and scrawny
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"I'll wring his scrawny
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"Oy missis!" he called out after her, "Is it yer what owns that scrawny looking goat?"
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In a minute she had pulled the stockings over her scrawny little legs and slipped Faith's shoes over her thick little ankles
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The boat-driver was a hopelessly scrawny man with a thin mustache and bulging eyes
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scrawny cat by his side, neither in an apparent state of good
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A scrawny man much older than him waited at the foot
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“It was Akito wasn't it, I'm going to wring his scrawny little-”
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That scrawny little runt- is what they used to call me
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Your scrawny little son has finally grown into a man
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the island, I wasn’t going to kill this scrawny, dying bird
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” Dawes waved a scrawny arm in the air
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Craning his scrawny chicken neck, Edwin reached up and clamped his beak around Zach’s nose
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The first look of horror in this story was the scrawny valet’s when he saw me pull up in a hearse
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His arms and legs were scrawny
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Looking at this scrawny little guy with his greasy hair, his shoulder-padded
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magician?” He puffed up his scrawny chest
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When pressed for an opinion he reckoned I got the job because the other applicants had been scrawny little runts, and as actors with my physical type were as rare as hens’ teeth, I was a shoe-in
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Six hours convinced me hitch hiking was not an option so I endured third class, wooden train seats, surrounded by fat mothers shouting “Jose, Maria, aqui!” as they peeled boiled eggs, tore open bread rolls and gossiped while their scrawny, wrinkled husbands drank wine from basket-covered bottles and smoked foul-smelling cigarettes
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After an initial pep talk by the camp’s head teacher, a scrawny Scottish fellow reeking of tobacco sidled up and hissed, “Macbeth?”
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Scrawny, angular, a large mouth and looked about forty
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Maybe after a couple of years someone would ask what had happened to the scrawny bitch who used to manage MacFife"s girls, but no one would miss her
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“What’s that?” she implores looking more helpless than a scrawny baby does on one of those feed-the-starving-children-who’s-parents-are-too-stupid-to programs
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‘I hope your grandmother isn’t disappointed when she sees I’m just a scrawny old man with no special talent
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In the morning she’d tear up her silly confession, renounce revenge, and try to make it up with Stephen—she should be able to get him away from the clutches of that scrawny old woman she’d seen him with
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Men and women alike were almost transparently pale and either flabby and obese, or scrawny with dry, sickly skin
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Occasionally a scrawny, strange looking animal creeps past—lizards with malformed heads, snakes with odd growths on their bodies, insects that are slow and clumsy
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‘If you read the briefings instead of screwing every male Vassal you can lay your scrawny claws on, you’d know that as part of the experiment to create super inventive scientists we decided to waive the mind-bending in case that was affecting imagination and creativity
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There was nothing here when we arrived, just a stony hillside with a scattering of scrawny eucalypts
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He wanted to strangle the scrawny, screaming little creep
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” Replied the Padre placing his hands on the Weasel’s scrawny shoulders
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By the time Pedro looked out of the shack door, with the Indian peeking over his shoulder, there was nothing to see but a scrawny mother dog and her pups lying under a shrub and Chica staring at them from a distance, her eyes back to normal
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about,” she said sliding her scrawny wet body between Harold and
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her scrawny little white legs
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Suddenly the cabin door flew open and a small, scrawny figure sprinted to the water‘s edge and jumped into the grounded pirogue, gesturing and voicing unintelligible sounds
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Then after he is done with you, I’m going to pluck those big weird eyes out and tear your fuckin’ weird-looking head off that scrawny ass body of yours,” I screamed at him
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likely to shoot our scrawny asses out of the sky
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scrawny bodies and large heads added a touch of horror to it
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As we were about to move on a scrawny old man called out to
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Heracles found himself to be actually as tall as the men of the village and was much taller and bigger than the generally scrawny boys that seemed to be his age
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Mitchell immediately focused on the scrawny man, who had a sinister expression on his face
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The fire burning in the chacmool on the temple top, was the only indication that this was a serious religious gathering, after an hour or so, the crowd began to grumble about the wait, but before it could develop into more than a murmur the temple drums began to beat to an hypnotic rhythm, Yaotl, the high priest made his appearance on the top platform of the pyramid, he was about forty summers old, but whether by design or being too close to the spirit world, he looked much older, around his thin scrawny neck he had hung his magic mirror breastplate in which everyone believed he could see into a mans soul, across his face was painted a broad black band, this gave him the look of something that should have been buried a long time ago, when I was a small child he always had the power to frighten me by just walking by, now he raised his arms and the crowds chatter ceased, in a booming voice, which could be heard by everyone gathered in the great square, he said
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before I knock your scrawny rear out of that saddle!” he interrupted,
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slowed uphill, the scrawny engine unequal to her urgency
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Another five kilos on his lean frame and he would have remained a scrawny individual being two inches short of six feet with piercing dark eyes and high cheek bones
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He was a scrawny man of considerable height with a moustache that hinted at
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Shoop was tal and scrawny but held in his frame
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they looked at Shoop, tal scrawny and apparently unarmed
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semi-automatic weapons and the scrawny only appeared to be packing an
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scrawny, wrinkled and, some would say, scary, as my skin is the color
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So they were closeted away here, until they were fat or scrawny or wart-ridden enough to no longer be a threat
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It was not worth risking his life, and the cream of his troll army, for the sake of a scrawny wizard who was of no value to him in any event
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“How can a scrawny old crow
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stretching the shorts over as much of his scrawny bottom as he could cover
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But the more he beat this scrawny little foul-mouthed
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Alexander sat next to him, a massive hand wrapped around the old man’s scrawny thigh, ready to tear him to pieces if he even thought about making a run for it
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Now get that scrawny ass of yours out of here!”
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His appearance is that of a drill commander in a bad Hollywood movie, the kind that yells at scrawny boys as they wriggle under the barbed wire and makes them cry
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“And Andrei”––Luka slathered honey over his ham––“hasn’t yet mastered basic etiquette, what with his inviting that scrawny rat to a court function
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Each table had a cluster of bulky men and scrawny women who threw chips worth hundreds on to the table with the same gusto as she had seen children buy ’instants‘
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that she must be serious about her description of the scrawny bum
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He was no longer a scrawny, useless
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She appeared a bit scrawny, but her rolled up sleeves revealed strong arms
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grub said, “In that case, the grub above me is scrawny, but very tasty
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Hal caught a glimpse of a scrawny back leg, and then came the long, long tail, growing thinner and thinner until it finally ended in a point no thicker than a pencil
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“Two hours,” said the scrawny man
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” Speaking to Sheridan would be the last thing I’d do, but the thought of getting my hands around her scrawny little neck, and sinking my teeth into her veins brought smiles of joy and delight
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“Just a few scrawny shepherd’s, the odd lonely trooper and a handful of stingy station managers who wouldn't die parting with a point's worth of anything
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I think I’ll break your scrawny neck
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Maybe he has a crummy old car, and maybe he’s really ugly and scrawny, but when he’s dreaming he’s this big, strong man with a really expensive car, because that’s how he imagines things should be for him
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body was still in the process of regaining post-operative fat and flesh, but my scrawny
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When checking for its head on the other side, scrawny features gawped back, the
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Easing its scrawny head between leaves, black pitch eyes readjusted to the
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So the evolution of human ‘civilisation’ is spanned by the life of one scrawny slow-growing shrub (Ford, 1985)