We can too easily imagine the flickering skin, the snorting and pawing, the frantic runs at the fence.

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The other day after-school, after a tip-off, they spent a good half hour pawing over a listing for Scarlet Ninjini.

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This is the art of pawing through financial statements looking for evidence that a company is imparting an artificially rosy glow to its results.

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As a further precaution, United Space Alliance technicians started pawing through the entire inventory of watertight reusable wires used to connect boosters and mother ship.

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My focus was drawn to the expressions of the all the people running, eyes front, chronically pawing at their redundant phones with looks of utter dismay, but never looking back, not one of all the thousands I could see rushing by.

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Your pets may have trouble checking into Foursquare (have you ever tried pawing a touch screen?), but Tagg a GPS tracker that attaches to your dog's or cat's collar makes it simple to keep tabs on their whereabouts from any computer or mobile phone.

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