| When James found her she was just some ratty bird dog on the side of some country back road. |
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| His lips peel back to make way for a giggle, a ratty staccato, something up from a drain. |
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| A soft smile crossed his ratty countenance as he pulled up the rear of the patrol. |
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| The small, ratty man ran down the pavement, his wife at his heels, and darted past a small ice cream parlor. |
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| It doesn't have any of these snarly, ratty, great farfisa sounds that the real instrument did. |
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| He used the next field over with these ratty little kids and they were all running, throwing this one little ball around. |
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| Sarah smiled expecting ratty old jeans and a tee shirt from the lost and found, but was once again surprised. |
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| And we had him clothed in this ugly pink nightgown, this noxiously ratty looking dirty blonde wig, red marabou, and orange fuzzy slippers. |
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| Did he write it before breakfast and so his low blood sugar levels made him a bit ratty? |
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| She took the torn overalls, the ratty dresses, shorts, jeans, skirts, shirts out and tossed them into the hallway. |
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| The cruiser was pulled up against the curb just inches from Donny's ratty high-top sneakers. |
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| I grabbed a ratty towel from the outhouse bathroom and jogged away in the direction of the creek. |
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| Flustered, she declines, and the whole thing is seen by Henderson's ex-boyfriend, a ratty bad-boy type played by Robert Carlyle. |
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| Thank god for foul-smelling German army jackets bought in moments in weakness from ratty markets in Berlin. |
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| If you've ever asked yourself who stays in ratty motels off the highway next to malls, with Walmarts as the high shopping, here is the answer. |
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| Which is why, on its first run, to London, it was like a blue and white Pied Piper trailing a stream of ratty hatches in its wake. |
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| When I shave my hair in a Mohawk, toss on a pair of cut-offs and a ratty U.W. Madison t-shirt, however, I'm instantly recognizable as a gringo. |
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| In the center of the room was a knot of ratty blankets, and torn men's clothes, both dotted with blood. |
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| He can walk into the chicest and fanciest restaurant wearing his favorite old ratty T-shirt and jeans and nobody bats an eye. |
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| Suddenly the ratty old sixties sofa that came with the flat is starting to look quite comfy. |
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| I had a ratty orange sweater that I loved to death in high school and I accidentally wore it on Saint Patrick's Day. |
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| She had put on her junky jeans that had holes and tears in it along with her ratty old black T-shirt. |
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| Ideally there will be lyrics about their ratty bathrobes at some point, but I'm not picky, cause hey, I'm all about the glitz. |
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| As the world's least patient person, I get extremely ratty when the till operator is working in slow motion. |
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| Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship. |
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| Couldn't get comfortable in bed, but managed to get to sleep, and I've woken up with the pain as bad as ever and feeling very ratty. |
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| Remind me not to read things when I'm tired and ratty, as I am prone to misinterpretation. |
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| Tomm was a bit ratty on Christmas eve but he seems fine, just a bit sniffly at the moment. |
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| He has been visibly ratty about his inability to get the media to follow his agenda. |
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| I got told today to stop being so ratty to customers, even when they are at their most ignorant. |
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| She couldn't get conformable to begin with and then just got over tired and ratty. |
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| While I'm in a bit of a ratty mood, does anybody want to have a guess about which smug London-based website e-mailed me overnight? |
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| So what can we hear now, the morning after the rush has worn off, now that we've feeling ratty and irritable? |
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| Before she came on this trip she would have seen a stick-thin girl, with ratty blonde hair, blotchy skin and bags under her eyes. |
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| Years later I foolishly sold off my collection of ratty, well thumbed copies. |
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| The women are pretty ratty on Daph for drawing the crabs, and so is her boss for that matter. |
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| A small, ratty man in a white smock and hair net was dragging an overly-stuffed bag of trash toward one of the dumpsters. |
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| I leaned into the soft cushions of the ratty old furniture as the phone rang. |
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| Past the lockers and sleeping area was the living area, with a four seater table and chairs, a futon, two tall bookshelves, and a ratty rug. |
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| No matter how ratty or dog-eared or water-stained the book, it will find a happy home with me, at least temporarily. |
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| Because, for me, the idea of the regal Diane in the ratty warehouse digs is positively tantalizing. |
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| There were no large buildings here, only trailer parks and ratty houses. |
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| Does she still have those ratty little Yorkshire terrier dogs? |
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| She had no taste in fashion and always wore old ratty clothes. |
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| He is also probably quite ratty at this time because he is moulting. |
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| Remember, the mop of hair I was sporting was essentially a very, very long men's haircut, so it did have a tendency to look a little ratty on occasion. |
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| I slipped into a faded pair of blue jeans and a ratty old t-shirt. |
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| By her features they were slim and small under that old ratty coat. |
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| Cold, bare concrete floor, one to two small, ratty wool blankets. |
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| Inside, two ratty couches and an old rug furnish the main meeting area. |
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| The former dramatic soprano dresses for the camera, cheeks feverish with rouge, a multipointed jester's hat and veil on her head, bejeweled hands, ratty fur stole. |
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| I was spreadeagled on a ratty old couch in the corner of a large room. |
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| Even if it was a ratty old couch, it was still pretty comfortable. |
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| At some point, that pair of ratty cutoffs is going to have to be removed, showing one's backside, thighs, and midsection in the blindingly bright sun. |
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| We're both sleep deprived and getting really ratty with one another. |
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| Ok, off the soapbox Mr M, it's late and I'm tired and ratty. |
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| Pulling up in front of a ratty looking house on the poor side of town. |
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| I'll use it once this one gets too ratty and old to be used anymore. |
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| His 14 ratty rooms are among the most luxurious accommodations for visitors to Ghadames' ancient town of mud houses and dark, twisting passageways. |
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| The windows would steam up and my mum would get ratty, because everyone would be in the way. |
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| I felt cold in my ratty old nightshirt with the holes in it. |
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| Every performance was perfect from Tim McMullan's secretly heartbroken Europhile dandy to Susan Engel's ratty Russian princess with an illogical hatred of accordion players. |
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| He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him. |
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| He was not obvious Congressional material: he lived in a bachelor's flat, his bedframe tied together with one of his neckties, and he dressed exclusively in ratty denim or in clothes that did not match. |
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| The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning. |
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| If it looks at all ratty or mildew-ish replace the curtain immediately. |
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| So it was ratty, I think, might be the best description of it. |
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| We busted out an old ratty pedal to get that solid-state distortion. |
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| To concretize its ideal ITS company has opted for the uncouth of couplet engraving workshop it invested for the acquisition of a ratty engraving laser machine. |
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| I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington. |
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| Then Louis' horn rose in harsh, elated notes, phrases he'd invented on riverboats and ratty blues tonks, using all the sinews of his face and muscle of his tongue. |
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| By 1996, she was a hooker sleeping in the streets or at ratty hotels in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, turning tricks to get her next bag of heroin. |
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| I can't believe you've got a hot chick in that ratty apartment with you. |
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