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curled-up - definition and meaning
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He pulled away, and steam poured from his nostrils as he shook his head with curled-up lips.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
Tall, potbellied, he has a curled-up Pancho Villa mustache and reeds of graying hair falling away from the top of his shiny head.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
I also flattened out the curled-up leaves and painted it with chocolate brown and gold spray paint.
Archive 2009-09-01 The Curious Holts 2009
And his was genuine surprise, on entering the steward's room, to behold Michael just rousing from his curled-up sleep on the floor.
CHAPTER X 2010
I also flattened out the curled-up leaves and painted it with chocolate brown and gold spray paint.
What the hell? (and Solar Chandeliers) The Curious Holts 2009
On Heargadievvá Street women pass by on foot sleds, their red Sámi bonnets bobbing up and down in the wind, fur boots with curled-up toes, pushing and sliding their sleds.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
On Heargadievvá Street women pass by on foot sleds, their red Sámi bonnets bobbing up and down in the wind, fur boots with curled-up toes, pushing and sliding their sleds.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
The circle parts and Donna kneels beside the curled-up bones.
GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith 2009
Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920).
The Shape of Things Lance Esplund 2011
He pulled away, and steam poured from his nostrils as he shook his head with curled-up lips.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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