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akimbo
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    And what they saw was something akimbo and arustle in the down-hung wicker carriage.†  (source)
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    He went past power pylons with their spindly arms akimbo.†  (source)
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    Kaleb Wallace and his brother Thurston, his left arm hanging akimbo at his side, pounded the front door with their rifle butts.†  (source)
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    In a few months this ponytailed man would be beheaded, nape-first with a serrated knife to enhance discomfort, his headless body strung up by one ankle from an electricity pylon where it swayed legs akimbo until the shoelace his executioner used instead of rope rotted and gave way, no one daring to cut him down before that.†  (source)
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    Now fatigued, the astronaut stood with arms akimbo, looking up at the sleek lines of the engineering marvel before him.†  (source)
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    Crouching like that, she's like a doll, an old one that's been pillaged and discarded, in some corner, akimbo.†  (source)
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    He climbed onto the roof of the limo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like Superman—except with only the underwear.†  (source)
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    Amy was asked, but Jo was not, which was fortunate for all parties, as her elbows were decidedly akimbo at this period of her life, and it took a good many hard knocks to teach her how to get on easily.†  (source)
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    The whole airport went akimbo with excitement.†  (source)
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    But the boy had moved in the night; he lay sprawled on his back now, arms and legs akimbo.†  (source)
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    He frowns at me for a moment, arms akimbo.†  (source)
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    Bourne stood arms akimbo, billowing his cheeks, his breath escaping slowly as his eyes shifted from one manikin to another, he was an uncertain man about to make up his mind.†  (source)
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    It's not like he's even premed, like Chiniqua, whom he spots near the aisle, her birdlike arms akimbo, elbows out and pencil scribbling, with her face pressed close to the page.†  (source)
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