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"text": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm\nWe arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick."
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"text": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html\nFrench actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels"
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"ref": "http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread95347/pg1",
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"ref": "1956, “Apple a Day”, in The Times",
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"text": "http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/\nAfter the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily."
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"ref": "1924, Maurice Magnus, Memoirs of the Foreign Legion",
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"text": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060212182830/http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/goheen_robert.html\nPatient, always humane and trustworthy, he is personally humble at the very time that he is rockily steadfast (an unsympathetic witness might say stubborn), not because he fails to understand and respect the views of others but because he refuses to compromise his own enduring values."
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"text": "https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172204/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/mccoy1.htm\nThey would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest."
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"ref": "2006 February 24, Liz Jensen, “Ludmila's Broken English, by D B C Pierre”, in The Independent",
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"text": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060429210002/http://www.atticlights.co.uk/about.html\nTop of the three here is “Ton Of Love”, a back beaten Tom Petty-ish album tracker with Beach Boy backing vox, slick and, get this, rockily abrasive."
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},
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},
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},
{
"ref": "2006 February 24, Liz Jensen, “Ludmila's Broken English, by D B C Pierre”, in The Independent",
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},
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"ref": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060523201359/http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/starstruck/feature/?sernum=34",
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}
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},
{
"text": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060429210002/http://www.atticlights.co.uk/about.html\nTop of the three here is “Ton Of Love”, a back beaten Tom Petty-ish album tracker with Beach Boy backing vox, slick and, get this, rockily abrasive."
}
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"In a manner suggestive of rock music."
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