They lick it up off the crooked rocks.

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' And he'd tell me everything about the album, how it came to be, why Jimmy Page wrote that lick, what it was like with them when he wrote it, because he was on tour with them!

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Naturally, the Thai army reckons it can lick the militants.

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Readers as old as I am will remember the old Tootsie-Pop commercial where the owl can never lick the candy more than three times without biting into it.

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For instance, if you have been lied to and there is not much you can do about it, assessing the damage prepares you to you lick your wounds and move on.

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Towa may need a lick of paint, but like rural communities all over Japan, it shows evidence of lavish government spending on projects designed to stimulate the economy.

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Prescient words all, as it turned out, but none of them did their author a lick of good.

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In a perfect world, your grandparents wouldn't need a lick of help getting the most out of a smartphone, but let's face it: the devices are complex, and if you don't have the proper motivation, they can be a bit difficult to learn.

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Despite the expansion potential, though, it can still be used right out of the box to do robotics without touching a lick of code.

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