The unsecret ingredient of its rampant success was turning a dog-eared, dog-eat-dog premise into a coming-of-age story about a strong, resourceful girl, then widening it into a fable of star-crossed lovers.
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The result is a dog-eared record that any hard-rock fan with curious ears might love.
The dog-eared corners and faux-brushed aluminum on the lid do nothing to improve its aesthetic appeal.
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But what about instruct, I hear you grumble over your dog-eared copy of "The Grapes of Wrath"?
For now, though, the Hound is embracing the past, a time when everyone seemed to have a dog-eared novel to hand.
They centralize and digitize the patient's medical records, usually dog-eared paper piles that can run to thousands of pages.
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The 36-year-old housewife goes there regularly to riffle through the dog-eared sheets that are pinned on the notice board.
OK, maybe I misread the cover of the dog-eared copy of Glamour perched in a magazine rack at the gym.
And, oh yes, he really liked case studies, and showed me his folder of dog-eared case studies that he seemed to believe were the key to his success.
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Spread-eagled and dog-eared, between the sheets, among the food, on the road and in the wild, they are not only props and script, but part of the cast.
The effect is to end the production of an annual volume called the Statistical Abstract, which any librarian will tell you is one of the most dog-eared research publications.
The missionary leaflets by the collection box were smeared and dog-eared, and Bartholomew noticed now that there was bird lime on curtains that were there in place of a door to the vestry.
Both eBay and Amazon.com have significant book-auction areas on their sites: eBay has 157, 039 books on auction and Amazon sells everything from first editions to dog-eared copies of L. Ron Hubbard.
These books in particular inspired a generation of schoolchildren to take up astronomy and it was a regular occurrence for Sir Patrick to be presented with dog-eared copies of long forgotten titles by eminent professors looking for his signature.
But since I suspect that most parents were like mine--I understood that I would be getting my hands on only a slender fraction of the loot displayed on those dog-eared pages--the larger value, I now realize, was in the fantasy itself.
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