How To Use Punky In A Sentence
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There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets.
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This is a fast, funky, punky, indie disco tune.
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On the bus I befriend a punky little Quebecois.
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Someone once told me that peroxide punky stripes on spiked hair was cool.
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Maybe, in a truly punky and wanton act of hypocrisy, she might even return to the company.
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There's folky indie, there's metaly indie, dancey indie, there's indie-schmindie, jingly-jangly bumhead indie, punky-indie, singer-songwritery indie* ... and even those descriptions are inherantly lacking in proper decriptive terms.
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Although Ballet Hispanico presented a trio of premieres, it was Ramon Oller's Bury Me Standing, first seen in 1998, that epitomized the duende of this spunky little company.
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra is now 28 years old, but under spunky young director/violinist Richard Tongetti, looks and talent have combined to make it one of the world's great ensembles.
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It was punchy, plain, said what it thought - punky in other words.
The Music Of Death, Alive Again
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I'd had lots of friends and classmates back in my high school days who'd seemed a lot like him: the grandkids of Italian and Sicilian immigrants, they were smiling and open-hearted, spunky and pugnacious.
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She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self - centered valetudinarian.
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The spunky teen went on to pursue a PhD in neuroscience.
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Brined pork at Boulevard With farm-raised local Davenport abalone, the Aqua kitchen played an even subtler contrapuntal game, mimicking the challenging texture of this expensive univalve with other naturally spunky foods rich in distinct flavors of their own: pork belly, chanterelle mushrooms and smoked garlic, combined in a reduced "jus" rendered from Manila clams.
Bay Watch
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Obviously you were a headstrong, determined, and… really spunky woman.
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She was short and had a punky black hairdo.
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The old, spunky Madeline was gone and in her place was the submissive shadow of her former self.
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He sports a slightly punky hairstyle.
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There was a group of punky girls behind us, with torn tartan clothing and many body piercings
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At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
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Me and a friend were kind of flirting with a group of guys from across the room… very spunky guys.
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With a unique take on post-punk dance music, Maximum Joy meld punky choppy guitars, disco-funk beats and basslines, skronk-y jazz elements, reggae and dub effects, polyrhythms and (more!) cowbell.
Hit me with your best shot (Music (For Robots))
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On the regular menu, De Marco's inclusion of spunky mackerel in his ceviche raises it above the too-genial norm.
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He wore those punky shoes.
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I couldn't believe how spunky this little old woman was.
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Enfin si quand meme sinon j'l'aurais pas choisi mais je suis bien plus Punky dérangé que Punky poete, je suis tres reveur mais ce n'est pas l'image que j'veux donner a mon blog sinon je joueari pas autant les cretin dessus.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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She died her hair, started dressing "punky" and to her dismay her dad and her label execs went along with it and exploited it.
Ashlee Simpson Takes ‘SNL’ Lip Sync Blame
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You could describe Brit as spunky, but never skunky.
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The Bob we initially meet is a spunky, chatty extrovert who jumps into cars and prattles humorously to the drivers about music and her best friend and boy troubles.
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Scott should not be arguing with the judges at all after that train wreck - he is as punky as white bread, which made the performance that much moldier.
YesButNoButYes Stories
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It's short, spunky, catchy, and, surprisingly for a lot of pop bands in this age, doesn't stale after repeated listens.
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After that I had a sort of punky phase.
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That's the kind of light-hearted and spunky approach that packages the intelligent and truly insightful advice she gives.
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I used to turn my clothes into punky stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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And as for uncaring Mexican owners. .well you should see Spunky's other brother wearing his tee shirt all winter, or the other "overdressed" ones in this part of town.
Cats
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You can look kind of punky without listening to punk rock or writing punk-rock music.
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The Glasgow band have stripped away their punky guitars for a more minimal sound.
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So Hill did what any gutsy, spunky assertive women would do in her situation.
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She plays Jade, a spunky 20-year-old scraping by as a freelance photographer.
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If you like vaguely punky, you'll like this.
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At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
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Laura said it's the perfect home for her and her husband, Darren, and their spunky 8-year old daughter, Sarah.
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PS: Enki is marvelous (just as marvelous as Taiki - just more spunky).
Sea of Wind - Fuyumi Ono
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The adventure saga, envisioned and shot in stereoscopic 3-D, centers on blue-tressed Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning), a spunky tween.
'Coraline' looks great, but the story lacks focus
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Yesterday's sail left both Suzy and I feeling punky.
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He remembered that her hair was dyed blonde then, cut in short, punky layers.
Sins of Two Fathers
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Sherry, the punky bleached blond in the box office, looked up at me.
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Her punky, mohawk-styled crop was all attitude.
Globe and Mail
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Although Mrs. Bellmont's brutal treatment cannot break the spunky girl's spirit, it does ruin her health.
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This album starts with four track recordings made in his front room, before drifting through punky political reggae and dub to techno and trip hop.
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What truly made them great was the punky energy of everything they did.
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I was a punky, nihilistic kid when I wrote those scenes.
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She is also a spunky, opinionated scientist who believes that many athletes, nutritionally speaking, are lazy, undereducated, and misinformed, and eat like spoiled children when given the chance.
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There are some explosive stop-start punky thrashes that sound like Pavement at warp-speed.
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Jimmy looked a little withered after his bypass operation, but his spirit seemed as spunky as ever.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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They might not be a 'punky garage rock' band but they have got a lot of experience of playing in garages.
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Several overlapping vocals are thrown over a punky guitar that shreds quickly over repeated cymbal crashes in the background.
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after brunch Sara and I stopped at the "Rack Shop" which specializes in cartop racks, etc. the punky kid working there did not know a hill of beans, and basically said $200 for the bars to mount the canoe mounts on for the top of Sara's car.
Archive 2007-05-01
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I saw your ad in the paper and thought you sounded like a pretty spunky gal.
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One part loopy, dissonant, wrenching guitars, one part playful synth bleeps and bloops, one part punky, four on the floor drumming and shouted female vocals all generously sprinkled with raw disco energy and a refreshing sense of humour.
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You'll imitate those spunky Olsen twins, getting slimed with green goo at the 17th annual Kids' Choice Awards.
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The Westie's natural good looks and spunky attitude quickly made it a favorite in the American show ring and as a household companion.
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This look is undone, achievable glamour with a punky edge.
The Sun
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Sigourney Weaver heads the cast as the unscrupulous warden, while Jon Voight hams it up no end as her second-in-command, but it's newcomer Shia LaBeouf who stands out as the spunky victim of a miscarriage of justice.
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Sure, nobody broke out a pair of glittery assless chaps, but one contestant tried to make Christina go "punky" - and his fabric-light look led to many a disparaging
Idolator
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In contrast, spunky breeders underestimate the long-run benefits of progeny precisely because most of them occur well after childbearing is an option, such as creating people who will give a crap about you in 50 years.
Princess Mahalanobis: Blog Baby, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Elsewhere, the jumpy ‘Bridges, Squares’ fuses arena-ready power pop with a distinctly punky stomp that thoughtfully belies the sugary vocals.
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They move effortlessly from the punky thrash of "Brothers And Sisters" to delicate minimalism in "Love Is Back."
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The punky couple gave me a disdainful look, and I could only slink out abashed.
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The dazzling ladies and spunky blokes were a great hit with the crowd.
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There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets.
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In other words, as the Dec. 31 deadline for completing their withdrawal approaches, U.S. troops are leaving behind the good, the bad and what "Lil Czar" Mohammed calls the "punky.
The Seattle Times
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Father did like spunky women, especially if they were panting to take orders from him.
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I smiled, she was a spunky girl and attractive at that.
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The punky theme runs through the rails with gothic cobweb knitwear for Halloween time that can also be worn over skinny jeans and flat winkle-picker brogues.
Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
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There's a punky energy to this fast-paced and euphoric new track.
The Sun
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Cheered on by spunky chorine Gracie and inspired by the faith of lovely society lady Linda Lee, Cole and Monty drum up the funds to put on a show.
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Many were spunky and free-spoken delegates to the 1996 founding convention who co-mingled with representatives of the more electoral-leaning founding unions ILWU (west coast) and United Electrical Workers.
The Third Party Project
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She is bright, tough and spunky.
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Her hair looks full and funky swept up in a punky updo, which is a huge tress trend for spring.
StyleList Fashion Blog
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The girl was a spunky red head and had a milky complexion dotted with freckles.
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My father told me to select only the solid wood and the straight wood and not to put any punky wood in it.
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They both play a similar blend of punky pop, rich with guitars and really catchy lyrics.
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This three piece deliver short snappy punky chunks of energetic rock.
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The band took to the stage next, with slamming guitar riffs and punky ska tracks.
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In the next twelve months I went out with five spunky and attractive women.
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She sounds like Whitney, scats like Ella and looks like Punky Brewster.
Dwight Brown: Montreal Jazz Festival 2010 -- Bigger Is Better
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How can I get that punky edge without looking like I'm wearing a costume for an early eighties revival night?
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The band gave a dark, jazzy/punky edge to everything.
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Is this a naughty punky joke, a cheeky punky laziness, or a tiresome punky ignorance and stupidity?
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Yup, that's right, that spunky young bin man whose YouTube rap sensation condemns the health secretary, Andrew Lansley born in 1956, as a "grey-haired manky old codger" is cutting short his lifespan just as surely as if he were sucking on a crack pipe while leaping Becher's Brook.
You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review
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It has a punky, lo-fi feel and harks back to their early days.
The Sun
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Today, it was Sten's turn to feel punky.
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But he can't help getting attracted to her - she's pretty, spunky, and somehow vulnerable…
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Get the lightest, punkiest wood you can find (when its punky, its not much use for models). Easy to carve and sand to shape.
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Tonight they were spunky but never sexy.
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It was greeted with frenzied enthusiasm, despite sounding like a clumsy, punky novelty.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's a punky, geeky, nerdy girl.
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Two gawky, pimply, vaguely punky teenage guys are talking to two gawky, pimply, vaguely punky teenage girls.
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Their sound is varied, but essentially punky pop.
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True to form, I spent our first day out feeling punky.
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Felicity, ‘a spunky, spritely girl growing up in Virginia in 1774,’ visits a local plantation where there are clearly slaves; the issue never arises.
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There's Irene at the wedding of a handsome chap and spunky blonde who we now call the mayor and mayoress.
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A poor, spunky but undefeated girl gets a scholarship to an extravagant and posh boarding school which has a darke sekrit.
Archive 2009-11-01
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She's a regular, spunky she-devil," Miss Drexel laughed agreement.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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The suede holster is mealy and punky and falls apart almost instantly.
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Like Herodotus's exciting account of Leonidas and his 300 spunky Spartans holding up the entire Persian army at Thermopylae, this is story-telling so florid and fantastical that Tolkien himself might have written it.
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This funky, punky sophisticate was the downtown club look of the early Eighties.
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It is a bit punky in terms of not playing by the rules.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spunky ‘Vertigo’ is a breezy sprint through jagged, two-chord garage rock.
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Her character is a punky American art student who seduces a guy.
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Clementine's kind of punky; dying her hair a different colour every day.
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It's smart yet edgy, punky yet sophisticated.
Times, Sunday Times
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I really adored Ella because she's so spunky and free-spirited.
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His sound is at once electronic and punky.
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What use is a spunky youth in a jerkin and tights against the likes of The Joker?
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Harlem is a relatively harmless, rather dull patch of a great city still garnering a tiny cachet among the local yuppies because it used to have quite a spunky black community.
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Where kooky, zany, and madcap meet is the locus of Jacquelyn Reingold's modest but spunky comedy String Fever.
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Yeah, it's very, very spunky . You can do it with a monkey or an anthill full of ants.
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The quintet's punky, nu-wave songs have been labelled 'mathrock'.
The Sun
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Obviously you were a headstrong, determined, and… really spunky woman.
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Yeah, it's very, very spunky . You can do it with a monkey or an anthill full of ants.
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He was Gerard's punky little brother.
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Sprinkle more pigment on the tips for extra punky pink.
The Sun
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Personality-wise, she's the cute, spunky one.
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Farnol's usual spunky heroine is on the run from the rakehell and drunkard Lord Barrasdale, who would marry her by force to claim her lands.
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She's a spunky lass but he quickly becomes madly mistrustful and jealous, believing that Emily's friendship with her godfather Colonel Osbourne is a full-blown affair.
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I put my hair up in a sporty, yet spunky and crimpy ponytail.
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Don't miss the rare chance of gyrating the turbulent waters of river beas on a spunky kyak.
