I wanted siblings who, for as much as they relished teasing me, would stand by me when the going got tough. |
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As a type of humor or verbal wit, teasing is a device for establishing and reordering social hierarchies. |
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Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing. |
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The teasing smell didn't have an effect on the cold warrior as he ambled through the uneven grey, bricked street. |
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With a teasing nibble to Shanza's earlobe, he trailed feather soft kisses down her jaw-line. |
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The technique is ideal for teasing out information from signals that are aperiodic, noisy, intermittent or transient. |
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Yesterday I told myself that I needed to stop teasing Kevin Keith about his verbose comments. |
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One of the reasons that he is so cool and non-combative is that he learned to deal with this teasing culture. |
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By teasing the fibre out and twirling the spindle quickly the yarn is twisted together producing a thread. |
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The difference in the weight of the whorl, the degree of teasing and the skill of the spinner dictated the quality of the thread. |
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The Brixton show was an empty one, full of teasing highs and promises that never quite materialised. |
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Children are particularly vulnerable to teasing, which can cause great distress. |
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It's never OK to force yourself on a woman, even if you think that she has been teasing and leading you on. |
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By eighth grade the Special Ed class had had it with the teasing, and we got together during break times to back each other up. |
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Her smile suddenly froze on her face, and all of the warmth and teasing drained from her. |
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On the school bus, though, Nina and Zina chafe under the teasing and finger-pointing about their foreign accents and clothes. |
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He was teasing in his answers to some questions, at times startlingly blunt in response to others. |
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There was almost an element of teasing the pursuing Gary Smith, for the centre-half came close to catching the fleet-footed striker. |
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Well, what do you wear for lying around in the afternoons eating bon bons and teasing delivery boys? |
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Wal was still doing his paper crane origami and Reese never stopped on teasing me. |
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She was always picking on her kids and grandkids, teasing and joking, and loving each and every one of us as individuals. |
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Tom would be teasing Katie, and Dad chain-smoking and making jokes, while Mom piled the table with enough food to feed the Zuckermans twice over. |
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It wasn't long before all six of us hit it off, teasing and conversing like old friends. |
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Even on full lock and teasing it with your right foot, the car just glides around with no kickback through the power assisted steering. |
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The bell on the door tinkled and a gust of bitter, ice-cold air blew in, teasing the back of my neck. |
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Always clowning around, teasing girls, and getting into scraps with others, he's heading for self-destruction. |
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She claimed not to have experienced the teasing and cruelty that other illegitimates remembered. |
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Hairstyling, teasing, coloring, permanents, and the use of hair spray are supported. |
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So, of course, I end up paying more attention to us teasing back and forth than Jessie, and the brat gooses me when I'm facing Taylor. |
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My girlfriend of the time had been teasing me with sexual come-ons all evening as we had sat with our friends in the pub. |
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Madison's been telling me a little boy in her class has been picking on her, teasing her. |
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The warmth, the fun, the sensuality, the pillow talk, the teasing, the tantalizing, the joy of intimacy are wonderful. |
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He laughed at the looks directed his way for the teasing, then went upstairs. |
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Parents should not punish accidents or behaviors that are part of normal development, and they should avoid teasing, shaming, or nagging. |
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He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic. |
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The long looks and teasing banter was a thin barrier of what really lay between them. |
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I was afraid of committing to one person, I'm a flighty, teasing bit of fluff. |
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If performed incorrectly, the stress of teasing or backcombing hair can damage delicate strands. |
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Not only that, every time they're able to score a point they start taunting and teasing us, and they were good at it. |
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Immediately Drake ran over to the group, thinking that the men were laughing and teasing her. |
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Then I told him to stop teasing my dog and he asked me if I wanted to fight. |
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Apparently realizing the folly of her ways, she declined to press charges, saying it was her fault for teasing the hungry elephant. |
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The staff were wonderful, friendly, approachable, the porters made me laugh and were teasing me lots on the way to the theatre. |
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I'm finding it's the quiet moments that I'm remembering, the snuggling and cuddling and teasing and goofing around. |
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Plenty of people have spent prodigious amounts of time teasing out that complexity-in-simplicity. |
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Suddenly I felt guilt, I knew I had also upset him by teasing him about Josh. |
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I know it's silly but I've grown used to my quiet little life, pottering about the house and garden, teasing the cats and tending the plants. |
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He did not show any early nerves, scampering off down the left and deceiving Alen Orman not once, but twice with a teasing dribble. |
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The younger girl wondered if Sanura was baiting her, teasing her like she always did, or if she knew what she was really saying to Kira. |
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I knew it to be Tom, and was not pleased to think that soon he would ride past me, teasing and making jests. |
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His eyes stared up at me, his kohl eyeliner artfully smudged, his lips almost parting in a teasing smile. |
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He laughed, teasing me, and I watched helplessly as the last drop of milk dribbled into his cereal bowl. |
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His voice had all of it's previous teasing sexuality gone, only remained the voice of a dangerous man. |
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Insert a stake if necessary and set the plant in position, teasing out tangled roots. |
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His gray-green eyes sparkled with laughter and mirth, as he slung an arm around Jess, his hand teasing her hair affectionately. |
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They're probably too busy flossing, teasing their hair and singing along to Judy Garland records to be bothered. |
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You spent a lot of time flicking and teasing your hair with an Afro comb at lunch time, or during class or after class. |
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Men started to sport tight black leather pants and teasing their hair to incredible sizes. |
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And then it brought me my hairbrush and sat on my shoulder teasing my long brown hair. |
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I replied, undoing my ponytail and teasing my hair to make it look a bit better. |
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She had convinced me to leave my hair down, teasing it so it seemed much too big for a human being. |
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He certainly has the right kind of presence, raffish and raddled, teasing and terrorising. |
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Soon enough we were laughing and joshing and teasing our way along once more, the way we do. |
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He also was very adept at picking up on people's weaknesses and teasing them, ruffling some feathers. |
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What this does is save your virgin lungs for the long haul, because you can't bail out of a hotbox without getting the aforementioned teasing. |
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The first five were friends from school teasing him in fun or scorning him with contempt. |
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They were friends, even though he annoyed her and Marian more than anything, but with the years, it changed from terrorization to teasing. |
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Pupils often emphasised that teasing was not seen as harmful, but as a part of everyday banter, often between friends. |
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The road dead-ended at the park, and I slowed down still more, teasing myself a little. |
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The mildly teasing tone in the girl's voice took most of the sting out of her last comment, yet it still rankled. |
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Wouldn't a friendship be better if it could absorb the energy of teasing and laugh a big belly laugh? |
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If the animal keepers find someone teasing the animals, they warn him or ask him to leave, they claim. |
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In these, the last years of his life, he wrote often, sometimes a teasing postcard, sometimes an expository letter six pages long. |
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The level will obviously be slight if it's just some offhand teasing among casual acquaintances. |
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In Right Appetite, they developed a movement conversation with rapid exchanges, flirtatious teasing, even telling silences. |
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Adam's face darkened, and his teasing, light-hearted mood was gone beyond recall. |
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The teasing dip and flutter of a stop-and-go thin minnow pushes the right button for bass along the warming shorelines of spring. |
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Bobbing bunches of small boys run around like packs of pie dogs, yapping at everyone, teasing, pushing and screaming. |
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With her serene smiles, delicate shimmies, and fluttering fan, she cast a teasing spell of seduction. |
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The heat rippled watery mirages on the road, teasing my hot hand with illusory coolness. |
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For the first time, it seemed, there was no mockery or teasing in George's voice. |
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Her voice was definitely teasing this time, as she pulled a tube of plum-colored lipstick out of her purse. |
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Adding to Penguin's woebegone mental state, the guards and inmates have been continuously teasing him about his tattoo. |
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However, please forgive my teasing, for I am in an unconquerably joyous mood. |
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But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches? |
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The point of the needle darts back and forth, teasing the weave of the fine muslin, mull or cotton. |
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It was if he was teasing me with the start of a question, then regressing into mumbo-jumbo just to confuse me. |
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My mom too, had experienced days of incessant teasing by unmerciful young friends. |
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As I pass through the various dressing rooms a few minutes later, I can hear the younger Real Madrid lads teasing Beckham in Spanish. |
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Ronaldo provides a lot of the touching and teasing but sometimes his final spurt leaves fans frustrated and unsatisfied. |
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And their dresses were teasing fantasies plumed with artificial feathers. |
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Elizabeth met his teasing glance with a small disapproving frown. |
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I inherited the Arnold Family Thunder ThighsTM, which was a source of frequent teasing and distress for me as a child. |
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He once gave his child a walloping for teasing a handicapped girl. |
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There came a teasing jingle sound and the youth smiled eagerly. |
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He then breaks into a big smile, as if to reassure me he is only teasing. |
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She was winding me up, teasing me, and I knew it but the pain was still too fresh and the anger wasn't far from the surface and it took everything I had to keep quiet. |
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I was finding it difficult to respond in kind to his teasing. |
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He kept putting me off, and I kept teasing him, playing dumb. |
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Interviewees reported that shy students were more vulnerable to teasing. |
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Josh would be teasing him for the rest of the week if he did. |
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It seemed to be teasing her, laughing at her, and she resented it. |
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Kyle had blushed and they spend forever laughing and teasing him about it. |
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As the neon sign flashes on and off outside, Chris begins to hear the disembodied voices of Kitty and Johnnie teasing him, taunting him, and accusing him. |
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Sure, Crudup's teasing sexuality during the first act is entertaining, but it's his desperation and her uncertainty that makes the rest of the film so enjoyable. |
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A fuller of cloth is one who prepares cloth, teasing and thickening it. |
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Ahhhhh, I love the idea of teasing Mr B. I am such a tease and I love it. |
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They feel they're saving the kid a lot of anguish and schoolyard teasing. |
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She stared affectionately across the meadowlands that surrounded her as a light warm breeze ran teasing fingers through her hair, knowing exactly where she was. |
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So all day I was teasing her, telling her she should change her band name to Little Bald Beth. |
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Vladimir Putin draws on his background as a master spy, testing and teasing the new regime in Kiev and its backers in Washington. |
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The pair traveled to Penn Hills at least a dozen times over three months, teasing out the nuances and former life of the property. |
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He was a natural at teasing Cody and bouncing his little brother around up to the point where Kayla wondered if the little boy was going to toss his cookies all over Landon. |
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Stripping and teasing, as well as dancing and prancing, began in the Jazz Age of the 1920s, when black performers became famous for doing the shimmy. |
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Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels. |
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My eyes are narrowed in annoyance, his are wide with teasing. |
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He busily scampered up-and-down the left wing while he was on the pitch and sent in a number of teasing crosses that caused untold trouble in the home defence. |
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My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence. |
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The bar tender was very funny, teasing me when I ordered a white wine spritzer instead of the Scotch he was trying to persuade everyone to imbibe. |
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Vos's approach is to go through the Questions and Answers of the catechism in sections, teasing out the theological and practical truths contained in the answers. |
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Three stable boys strolled down the hall, laughing and teasing each other. |
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That brings hoots and teasing from all my friends around us of course. |
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The flirting, the teasing, just the whole interplay between them is great. |
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Tate was born with two different colored eyes, she took a lot of teasing coming up and now wears a contact lens to give the appearance that her eyes are the same. |
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Apparently he noticed a young man intimately teasing his wife. |
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He likes her but he is sending the wrong signals with his constant teasing. |
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You're good at flirting and teasing, and can be a real sweet talker. |
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Scarcely an exchange goes by without her flashing her top teeth, fluttering her eyelashes, pursing her lips or cocking her head with a teasing playfulness. |
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It's a joke and all in fun, but the teasing used to hurt me. |
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It came to me that the phenomenal world was like a dance of convections, a crazy dapple of hues, forever escaping one's notice, yet teasing the eye with its flow. |
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Although teasing resembles bullying because it can prompt feelings of anger or embarrassment, teasing can be less hostile and done with humor, rather than harm. |
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The others guffawed loudly and I could hear them exchanging teasing blows. |
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Some readers, then and now, find this teasing of their expectations merely irritating. |
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Sammy overcomes self doubts and teasing but with supportive parents and a very clever dog, Splodge, makes the team and the first game. |
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Use a teasing brush to gently backcomb the length of your pony, creating texture and faking a thicker mane. |
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My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips. |
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Albescent shapes played over the walls, teasing hundreds of drifty pleasures from his brain. |
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In preparing wool fibre for spinning, carding is the step that comes after teasing. |
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It is not difficult to read all this mockery of Eve's acting technique as a teasing message from Hitchcock to his own daughter. |
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One thing I know, not a girlygirl, which would be stupid playing games talking teasing being tied to the junglegym. |
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Impala, kudu, zebra, waterbuck, sable, and wildebeest had skirted the waterholes just out of bow range, teasing us, but they always drank elsewhere. |
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Additionally, mothers' propositional attitude and personal history of teasing may directly affect their perceptions of their own children's teasing. |
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And it's the teasing game of psychological revealment and concealment that makes Dorian Gray such a gripping tale more than a century after its publication. |
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Things start promisingly with pairs of erotically entwined lovers feeding one another in semi dar kness, teasing, luring and tempting with the promise of food. |
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Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan. |
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