Her never-ending winsomeness seems to ignore the world around her, and the film never calls her bluff. |
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He was a bluff, domineering character who exuded confidence though politically he often showed signs of naivety. |
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They hold kickers, prefer aces over jacks, and even try to bluff the machine. |
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During trips home we'd have these bluff conversations about money and prospects, pensions and security. |
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Intentionally rough, the bluff critic reacts here as well to the spectacular reception of the poem. |
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His amiable personality and bluff manner had an impact and he came across as the straightforward soldier, doing his best for the country. |
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Consequently, the politicians in charge of prestige public projects play a game of double bluff. |
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With American troops quickly closing in, surrounding him on three sides, Weatherford's only escape was a bluff above the wintry Alabama River. |
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We are drifting in the surge line between rock pinnacles and the bluff and I cannot believe my eyes. |
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The sun is just starting to illuminate the horizon of a cloud-laden sky and the dragons are behind a bluff of trees right on the city limits. |
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Today, all that remains is a bluff of trees in the middle of a cultivated field. |
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But if I were an evil lizard myself, it would of course be a wonderful double bluff if I told you all about them. |
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Here a narrow bluff trail crosses open country known today as the East West Ranch, affording views back toward pine forests embracing the town. |
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This attached vortex force is the source of pressure drag on a bluff body, such as a sphere or a flat plate normal to a steady flow. |
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Half the barges were away, already sweeping downriver with thin, white mustaches under their bluff bows, when a commotion awoke ashore. |
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At the summit of the bluff is a small clearing with exposed slate bedrock, fractured by cracks and crevices. |
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While it was fronted largely by bluff Protestant parsons, it was backed by Stalin's branch office in the Australian Communist Party. |
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On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump. |
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After nine months of shilly-shallying, the Vice President and his operatives have failed to bluff the General Account Office. |
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The Franklin Bluffs station is located on the flood plain of the wide, braided Sagavanirktok River, at the base of a relatively high bluff. |
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Nadia asked between pants for breath, nearly two hours later as they neared the summit of the craggy bluff. |
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They stole up the mountain behind the Shuswap, attacked and forced the Shuswaps over the bluff, killing most. |
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About a day's walk upstream from the confluence of the Shields and Yellowstone rivers, a sandstone bluff looms above the willow bottomland. |
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There was bluster, bluff, and blarney, with everybody trying to talk over everybody else. |
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The US, for the most part, is engaged in a brutal game of blind man's bluff. |
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He had already broken up with his other girlfriend, and he asked me out while we were playing blind man's bluff. |
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Since it's invisible, we'll just have to play blind man's bluff with this thing. |
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Organized games include various versions of tag, blind man's bluff, and hide-and-seek. |
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The challenge is to insert a home unobtrusively into a bluff overlooking the ocean. |
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The point itself is a massive coral sand bluff that narrows to a reef as it slips needlelike into the sea amid waves and colliding currents. |
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David told his oppo he had already gone to the top, and when his mate called his bluff he had to climb to the button to save face. |
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It rested on a mixture of bluff and double bluff, and ability to use all types of troops to their best advantage. |
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It should be obvious why I badly want to believe that this is a bluff or a ruse. |
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It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff. |
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And what good would it do their credibility to perform such a double bluff? |
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Not only would red sticks protect them, but stout fencing and a location atop a river bluff. |
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We had pitched camp at dusk, raising the tents beside the ruins of an old rest house on a bluff of rock named Maggu Chatti. |
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As you indulge in the hopeless game of double bluff that is present-giving, always have a few emergency presents wrapped safely in a cupboard. |
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When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics. |
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I remember seeing the figure when watching the show back when it was first broadcast, but I'd forgotten the double bluff. |
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His denunciation of my research is an audacious bluff, believable only by those who have never opened my book. |
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Trouble is, the first bluff is a life strategy while the second bluff is a political convenience. |
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The internet rumour mill has been working overtime, a game of bluff and counter-bluff spreading like a computer virus. |
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This is a very dangerous game because who is to say he will not call their bluff? |
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She glanced off the platform and then back at him, hoping that he would believe her bluff and cough up the money. |
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It is time to call its bluff and close down the entire trough by abolishing the Arts Council and all its works and pomps. |
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She uses her acting abilities and intuition to bluff foes out of their clothes. |
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A last-minute offer may be a ruse or a bluff, but I'm the guy who ought to make that call. |
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When challenged he tried to bluff it out by claiming it was his friend's house but a neighbour knew the occupants. |
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The ogre was going to play dead and bluff it out, but then he saw a female pointing toward him and the rest glancing his way. |
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And it's about time someone from the conservative side of politics called their bluff. |
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And should it respond by accommodating its demands, or by calling its bluff? |
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The large, stone main building sits on a bluff above the confluence of two rivers. |
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Right or wrong, some of the guards called their bluff, and we can learn from that. |
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The bluff was called and it was game back on as players hastily deserted favourite watering holes. |
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In effect, where polluters had previously argued that emission control was too expensive, the new system called their bluff. |
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He had started to climb down the bluff to fish for sea perch from the rocks below, something the Idahoan has done for decades. |
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Next visit to the bookshop, I'm forced to bluff that I raced through it in less than an hour. |
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Or, what if we called their bluff and didn't give them the money and see what happens then? |
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In a very real sense, I think the big commercial publishers now are clearly calling our bluff. |
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I called his bluff correctly though and I ended up getting all the chips back off him and knocking him out so was all good in the end. |
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One of these days someone was going to call his bluff and leap over that desk to clock him one. |
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I'm just a little disappointed that it went this far to play poker and to have someone call your bluff. |
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It is not only that prices have risen faster than in most other places, but also because of the game of double bluff buying a house has become. |
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The man, beneath his coarse and bluff exterior, is haunted by a sense of his own inadequacy. |
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Beneath his bluff exterior, he is a narrow-minded reactionary with merely some financial success. |
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Here Fort Mackinac was built on the high bluff with stone ramparts and three blockhouses that remain today in a state park. |
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Blunt Limerick man and bluff Tipperary man did not enjoy the most harmonious of relationships. |
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Megan looked over and up at a tall and bluff boy she's seen at school before standing in the doorway of what seemed to be his compartment. |
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Slowly she wanders across the bluff looking for deadfall to build a small fire. |
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Matching his rugged features he cultivated a bluff manner, parading humble origins and ridiculing a man who corrected his accent. |
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His best divisions were bogged down in Yemen, so he was in a weak position, and he rattled sabers hard as a bluff. |
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Let us try to bluff him by painting our houses, buildings, apartments, hoardings and what not, in green. |
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They allow her to reflect on what lies behind his macho, bluff exterior and why she reacts to it in the way that she does, in a supportive, non judgmental setting. |
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Rigg pointed out a blockhouse on the bluff overlooking the beach, saying they could expect menacing fire from that area. |
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Ten days later, when the dust had settled, MSF President Joanne Liu called their bluff. |
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On a bluff overlooking the sea, he pitched a tent and lived there for the next year in near total seclusion. |
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In the bluff countryside of Sparta, Wis., the hills roll, the barns are red, and Holsteins graze in the shadow of 11-foot-high pumpkins and 15-foot-long walleyes. |
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Don't be fooled, she will hope that you will see through her bluff and love her enough to make some sort of effort to celebrate. |
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At no point, until two Senators called their bluff on Monday, did the bright sparks at The Economist magazine or DARPA acknowledge that such a market could be rigged. |
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From the top of a bluff on a clear day, with the sun melting the tarmac and baking my thighs, the deep-blue arc of the horizon looks like the edge of the earth. |
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The one and a half hour walk is a round trip walk through the bush on the reserve to the sandhills, along the beach, up a bluff and back through the bush to the Lodge. |
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Any sharp objects would have sufficed, particularly when coupled with the bluff of having a bomb. |
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This over-reaction is of course a bluff, an attempt to silence opposition, almost suggesting that these practices, reprehensible to me, are necessary for secular democracy. |
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With limited resources and the inability to properly police such a vast area, the colonial authorities were playing little more than a game of bluff. |
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How many games of double-and-triple bluff are going on here? |
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There are probably those who still believe that this is a bluff. |
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Both their livelihoods depend on the ability to bluff and sniff out fraud. |
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Aware of his approach, we could only hold our breath and bluff it out. |
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Over the past few weeks, the president has called their bluff. |
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He had called her bluff, and she had met his challenge head on. |
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Transfolk, increasingly numerous, loud and proud, are calling our bluff. |
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When not daring an opponent to call his bluff, he seduced them. |
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One may counter that his music can take the bluff and hearty approach. |
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He had a bluff and ebullient, although sympathetic manner, and was hospitable, always the life and soul of the party frequently one he had given himself. |
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He flattered his clients on their excellent judgment in buying from him rather than his competitors, but he could be bluff and straightforward when necessary. |
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The bluff sea-captains and commercial adventurers who founded the Australian colonies had no special gift for symbolism, but they knew what was expected of them. |
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A tough, bluff man, he had no desire to relive ancient trouble. |
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Some thought the bluff carrier commander was borderline nuts. |
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Taking all of this into account, though there seemed to be an underlying sadness, I got the distinct impression that his bluff attitude was covering up something. |
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Little or no mound fill was added to the westernmost edge of the mound with the contours of this area remaining essentially the same as the natural bluff ridge. |
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He can force ministers and virtually anyone to bend to his will, and if they are recalcitrant he could call their bluff and take the case to the people. |
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The art of the bluff used in Ambusch is to trick your opponent into laying down a winning trio before they wanted to even if you do not have a winning trio in your hand. |
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He had not a thing in the world but bluff and his own ego, his own will. |
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Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff. |
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As well as the fancy rooms upstairs, there are the plainly decorated Bunkhouse rooms, designed to attract younger, bluff, snowboarder types into the Clubhouse. |
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It is running a dangerous game of bluff over Greater Sunrise, encouraged by Norwegian advisers whose experience is based on the oil and gas fields in Europe's North Sea. |
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Some of the apparent creakiness of the plot turns out to be a bit of a double bluff, and the book rattles along quite painlessly for some 500 pages. |
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It also has something of a double bluff about it as a further public denial that FF does not envisage revisiting the glory days of that 1977 landslide. |
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Fashion is not my strong point and the brain numbing possibilities of the bluff and double bluff involved here are well beyond my analytical powers. |
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It's entirely possible that the attack will line out the way they're named, just like in a smooth double bluff that looked completely implausible against Wexford. |
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On the front line there are three holes located along the top of the bluff 200 feet high overlooking Cooters Pond and the Alabama River. |
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Warwick Castle is situated in the town of Warwick, on a sandstone bluff at a bend of the River Avon. |
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We end the tour on a bluff overlooking a mine in the distance. |
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A ridgeline is a long area from which the surface drops away steeply on one or two sides, such as a bluff or precipice. |
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Under cover of a hooroosh by the Manchester, the Gurkhas have rushed a bluff 600 yards ahead of our line and are sticking to their winnings. |
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It therefore includes words such as mukluk, Canuck, bluff and grow op, but does not list common core words such as desk, table or car. |
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On another surveillance flight I accompanied a prominent pollie of the day, a big, bluff, ruddy-faced Minister. |
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There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defence in a moment of surprise. |
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Bobby was ready to rock and roll with a full tilt bluff. He pushed three hundred thousand in chips into the pot. |
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A game of skill, fortune, bluff and double bluff, Hold'em is the perfect introduction for a rookie looking to get a piece of the action. |
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Isn't it about time they threw in a little double bluff just to keep us guessing? |
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In the end, the finale was quite clever in that it was almost a double bluff. |
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Hole cards are private on each player's handset, allowing players to bluff each other face-to-face. |
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Complete the experience with a quiet low-tide walk around the fossil bluff that has an ancient glacial deposit, Wynyard Tillite, next to it. |
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Bran CastlePerched on a rocky bluff in Transylvania, in a mass of turrets and castellations, Bran Castle overlooks a desolate mountain pass. |
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My mind drifts to scenes of blind man's bluff in the buff and painful encounters with Old Father Time's scythe. |
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He was bluff, inspirational to the men, a brilliant tactician. |
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In fact, at first bluff, Hughes appeared to be the sort of man I could spend a lot of time with, both on the river and off. |
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This species was found only in the microsite at the foot of the bluff. |
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Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden. |
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Not at all, he says, it's part of his elaborate double bluff. |
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Among his perspectives are the fruit of usury, Samson Sybariticus, revolution and romance, killing no murder, uxorious usurers, and blind man's bluff. |
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The play is a dream as well, full of double bluff, plot twists and turns. |
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Today we teach kids blind man's bluff rather than survival skills. |
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It's the sappers who are the bluff heroes of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong, now more than 20 years old but which has lost none of its dramatic intensity. |
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I know this is going to look very stupid if he checks and I get outdrawn on the river by a gutshot or something, but I really felt he had nothing and was going to bluff. |
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Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. |
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A speech which was just off the cuff, Or are you really calling our bluff? |
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At the western end of Freshwater Bay on a bluff are the remains of Fort Redoubt, also known as Fort Freshwater or Freshwater Redoubt, a Palmerston Fort. |
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Shoreline indicators may be morphological features such as the berm crest, scarp edge, vegetation line, dune toe, dune crest and cliff or the bluff crest and toe. |
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