"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched."
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"Those who stand on their toes are not steady."
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"What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I do it."
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"I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear."
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"Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know."
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"You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap"
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"If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes."
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"Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . ."
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"We can't hold hands― Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me?"
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"Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched."
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"If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?"
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"Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent."
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"Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two."
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"It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental."
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"I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times."
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"I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world."
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"I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care."
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"bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time."
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"It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe."
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