The long-legged power flamingos are popping up like spring flowers on a hillside near you.

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We found the front seats to be comfortable and supportive, with sufficient travel to suit long-legged motorists.

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The 23-year-old honey from Holland made a long-legged leap up the charts from her second-to-last position last year.

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They're shaped like cranes, the long-legged birds that in China symbolize longevity .

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He reminded Hadley of a chattering bird, a large endearingly gawky bird like an ostrich, long-legged, long-necked, with a beaky face, quick-darting inquisitive eyes.

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Big-breasted, narrow-waisted and long-legged, she has helped sex intrude into childhood.

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Ms. L. REDGRAVE: I loved them and you were given a particularly beautiful, very long-legged sort of Bambi, a little deer, and I went in to you carrying my collection of glass animals.

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Once inside, he gyrates to the booming beat of the deejay's music, revels in the dotings of a gaggle of long-legged fashion models and poses obligingly for every cell phone camera that is thrust into his face.

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The existing system for funding paid long-term supports and services is built on a wobbly three-legged stool: low private savings, an underfunded Medicaid program, and a hobbled private long-term care insurance market.

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It seems that as long as humans embrace animals as four-legged friends, those bonds will continue past the pet's expiration date.

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