Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism. |
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The fact that one of the rotten little orphans had befouled her room with mud and muck had not helped matters. |
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The four ambled down the street, stepping through the muck, shouldering out of the way anyone foolish enough to be in their path. |
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Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden. |
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At Dillard, floodwaters receded to reveal muck, debris and tangled tree branches. |
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I have lived like we did in the jungles, in dirt and filth and muck, unwashed and unkempt. |
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Apart from the litter have you also noticed the amount of muck and dirt on the roads this winter? |
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This was an isolated incident, but residents were angry about the amount of muck, dirt and stones coming off each site on the lorries' wheels. |
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A muck of built-up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep, slow-moving, polluted water. |
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The floor was stone, but seemed to be hidden under a thin layer of muck, and debris from above. |
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He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse. |
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I finished the gutters, sprayed some water up there to clean out the muck, and then surveyed the entire leaf-in-yard situation. |
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The smog monster Hedora is an interesting creation, being made entirely out of sludge and muck. |
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He pointed out that an ordinary person leaving muck on a road would have to clean up the road afterwards. |
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Wells provided the villagers with clean drinking water, rather than the chocolate-coloured muck I had been swimming in. |
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When the Victorians planted them the only problem was sheep muck and cow muck. |
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A gentleman took his child on to the new play area and complained about the amount of dog muck. |
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We have some wonderful buildings in Trowbridge and they are just covered in bird muck. |
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On two occasions I have had a large amount of dog muck deposited on the pavement outside my house. |
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When she escaped, before I was covered in bird muck, I swear I saw a peregrine falcon fly down and cut her bonds. |
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He obviously missed the description of wading through cow muck to get to the feed-sheds in the dead of winter! |
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Farmers poured milk onto muck heaps yesterday at the beginning of a three-day protest at low food prices. |
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They are left in all weathers for an unknown period in their own muck and urine. |
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Fly tipped garden rubbish is as much a stain on the countryside as dog muck and litter. |
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One of Britain's top trainers, Tim Easterby, who has 120 horses at Great Habton, Malton, uses the pure muck as a fertiliser on his own fields. |
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Then there's the problem on country roads of farmers leaving muck from their dung or slurry spreaders. |
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Thousands of fish died when pig muck which was ten times more concentrated than human sewage poured into the Farlington Beck. |
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Unlike real junk food, this rhetorical muck comes with no warnings about its worthless contents. |
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This news has almost forced me to once again swim into the muck of Democratic Underground, which I have not read in almost two weeks. |
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Besides, America is a country with widespread muck and mire, as you may have noticed from our presidential campaign. |
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He'd asked me to muck a few horses out and I decided to take a radio down to keep myself entertained. |
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The how is waking up every morning, seven days a week, by 6 a.m. to feed the horses, muck out the stalls, brush, ride and bath the horses. |
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Could you feed, milk, take out to graze, and muck out my cow while I'm away? |
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You know, Ramirez, sometimes you seem as common as muck, and other times you're the most princely person I've met. |
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Sean Connery comes from the East of Scotland, with a 'posh' kinda tone, but we are from the West side and sound as common as muck. |
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I found letting my son look after his own money extremely hard as I was sure he would make a muck of it. |
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He gets to muck around with all the latest PC hardware and has a hand in making some of the fastest gaming rigs going. |
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I generate the material, kind of leave it to them to muck around with, and go off and write some more. |
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As the outgoing controller of Radio Four could tell you, it's dangerous to muck around with BBC tradition. |
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Most people treasure their right to vote and get very upset if anyone tries to muck about with it. |
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But I don't want to muck them around either and would like to know where I stand. |
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It would add hours to his commuting time, ruin his wife's photography business and generally muck them about. |
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Telecom's technology was far more basic in the early days and a country manager was expected to muck in when lines went down. |
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When they finally get home, they are, quite reasonably, expected to muck in with the shopping, cleaning and childcare. |
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Happy to muck in with any number of undignified playgroup tasks, one dad has been quick to name his price. |
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With the boss away, he steps up to umpire the hour when the kids muck up for the cameras. |
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You wouldn't want someone to come in just about when we're almost finished and muck it up. |
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Well, the New Zealand corporates are trying at least, but they do seem to muck things up when it comes to helping out local acts. |
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I guess we have to wait for the mainstream media to muck things up this badly. |
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Much Ado About Nothing tells the tale of two relationships and the meddling do-gooders who muck them up. |
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I get scared that I shall muck something up badly, so I tend not to volunteer for things. |
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I'm born and bred in Coatbridge and I live here, so there's no hiding place for me if I muck it up. |
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So unless I muck things up incredibly, I should be okay moneywise for the next few decades or so. |
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He paid tribute to the quick thinking of a local farmer who used a muck spreader to fight the fire, using water from a nearby pond. |
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The untreated sewage was taken from a septic tank beside a public toilet and dispersed with a muck spreader. |
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What happens on muck up day often reflects what's happened in the school throughout the students' time there. |
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When my ski pole sunk all the way to the hilt through bottomless muck, I realized this wasn't our day. |
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Three hundred and sixty-five days, come rain or shine, through muck and slush, I never missed a day, sir. |
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He kept running and smacked into him, knocking both of them down in the muck on the ground. |
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A muck of built up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep slow moving polluted water. |
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And we thought, well, poor so-and-sos, they're in the same kind of muck as we are. |
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We have to tippy-toe in and out of our houses because of the muck and dirt on it. |
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They realise that India is too important for the sponsors to muck around with. |
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The army of arthropods slurped bits of organic material out of the muck, then ejected balls of it like so many wads of chewing tobacco. |
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I suppose when you're out of your mind on cheap cider, homegrown weed and crack cocaine you might enjoy muck like that. |
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Because of the westerly winds it just blows back in again, just like all the muck and dust from the building site next door. |
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Oscar Brogden has proved that where there's muck there's brass by salvaging 1,000 bicycles from Manchester's bins. |
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Walker's script portrays a couple of go-nowhere white trash who struggle desperately to climb out of the muck and back into civilized society. |
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In my fingers, besides the wet muck of packing material was a soppy but readable copy of Tatz's book. |
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The muck then sticks to the insides of such things as water heaters, teakettles, and plumbing pipes. |
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I went about picking up mounds of dirt to drop into the pit, and my hands, already dirty with muck, became benumbed under the frigid air. |
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Quickly we hauled the canoe ashore and began to follow on foot, but the muck and mire made a chase on land impossible. |
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The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day. |
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It has been likened to the lotus, whose exquisite, fragrant blossom grows out of the muck and mire. |
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The project will take some time, but children love to muck in, helping mix concrete and move blocks. |
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At the edge of the wallow, a young brown and white steer was standing knee deep in the muck, calling to his mother, and she was moaning back at him. |
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Scientists, historians and the like need to muck around in libraries and laboratories to achieve their results, but concepts can be analysed in the armchair. |
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He talks in class continually and encourages his friends to muck around. |
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Italy, in the muck of an economic crisis, simply cannot afford to help everyone who lands on the shores. |
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Knowing them, I have a feeling they'll manage to muck it up somehow. |
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The dialogue is often artful, with sly suggestions that the seeds of various Shakespearean plots and themes were sown in the muck of their messy affair. |
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If I do I'd better not muck it up or I won't get another chance. |
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We used to produce so many muck spreaders we had them coming out of our ears, but now we are down to 15 staff and it will be hard to produce one of these machines a week. |
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Punk, let me remind you, had happened nine years earlier and had evolved into art rock sub-genres every bit as beastly as the muck that it had, in theory, swept aside. |
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How nice of Bob Dylan to demonstrate that over a lifetime of work, even perfection sometime runs amok into a muck. |
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He seems to have a genuine hatred for and problem with the muck so many kids get raised on, and recognises that this may be the only hot meal they get that day. |
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They keep tracking muck in the house and onto my newly mopped floors and leaving the doors open so all of the heat escapes to the outdoor winter wasteland. |
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And his daughters certainly don't deserve this sort of muck, regardless of what you might think of his policies and what his policies have done to other people's families. |
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I just want something cool to muck about with in my spare time. |
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An agricultural machinery manufacturer is hoping a revolutionary muck spreader will help transform its fortunes after being hit by the crisis in farming. |
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It stinks of horse muck at the moment and the rubbish is going everywhere. |
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I told Matt what my thoughts were and I don't want to muck him about. |
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He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck. |
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After a long day of him wading and me watching him in the muck, cocktails were required. |
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The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots. |
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It was full of green slime and muck instead of crystal clean water. |
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I'm sure you realise that I am in no state to have anyone muck me around. |
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They can muck up, and make fun, and even make your life hard. |
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The extraordinary attention to detail transports the viewer to Elizabethan London, from the grime and muck of the streets to the elegance of the palaces and nobility. |
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She is posing as a lady but she is really as common as muck. |
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During the building of the Towers engineers had to hold back the old river muck and keep it at bay to prevent the collapse of the unstable grounds during excavation. |
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Youths should realise they are putting their lives and those of other people at risk when they muck around with what are without doubt dangerous items. |
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My mammalian mind remains mired in the earthly muck of doubt. |
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The manouevre came dangerously close to spilling me entirely into the muck, but I teetered back and forth and finally came to rest still in the upright position. |
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If you muck up, you're automatically eligible for three months jail. |
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The cops, of course, always attend Hempfest, not to muck up the vibe but to make sure no big, important laws are being flouted. |
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He does all the serious stuff, which allows me to muck about. |
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My wife would be at home all dressed up for the ball and I'd be up to my elbows in muck, still in my boilersuit. |
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The devil ensnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. |
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The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo. |
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I know what people think about the North. They think it's all muck and living over the brush with women like Elsie Tanner. |
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No way could I muck about or get into trouble, because it would've got back to him within minutes. |
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The peat produces black soils, which are directly comparable to the American muck soils. |
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The bars of wrought iron were of poor quality, called muck bars or puddle bars. |
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Pompous sentimental muck well worthy of George Lucas himself. For Warsies only. |
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When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. |
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Over ham sarnies I learned there is now enough unsavoury muck seeping into the Thames to fill the Albert Hall 450 times. |
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It wasn't a magic bullet, but it gave us the grace to see past the immediate muck. |
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If you want to muck around with 'hippy crack', laughing gas or helium balloons, you've got 50 years to play with them after your career is over. |
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A Ministry of Labour investigation found that there had been a hang-up of wet muck in the ore pass. |
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It is not permissible to bury dog muck in parks or play areas and most public areas. |
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David Truscott, 41, was found covered in muck in a field, naked apart from a single sock, by the farmer's horrified 16-year-old son last month. |
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While walking up June Road, two police horses were in front of them when one of them made a large deposit of horse muck in the road. |
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Dog owners have a responsibility to dispose of dog muck in a way which minimises health risk. |
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Coventry people are being urged to muck in with a scheme to turn kitchen and garden waste into compost. |
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I had discreetly sloshed the muck in my Styrofoam cup onto the grass. |
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Ashton Raggatt McDougall began to muck about with fractal geometries in architecture a decade ago. |
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The stalls have been set up at the Nuneaton hospital by the George Eliot Diabetes Support Group and Cllr Hancox has been happy to roll up his sleeves and muck in. |
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You have to be really good to be able to muck around that much. |
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The left shoe, which is coated in NeverWet, emerges muck free and bone dry from the muddy puddle, while the untreated shoe on the right is clearly stained. |
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Don't muck about with the video machine, or you might break it. |
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She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck. |
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Eric Bristow's Cockney sage-like charm has made for very watchable telly, especially when he had to muck about on giant lily pads to win stars for their evening dinner. |
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If we all muck in, we can get this room cleaned in next to no time. |
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She was always early, eager and ready to go, helpful in everything she did, keen to muck in with the nitty-gritty jobs and always willing to do more. |
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