hari-kari

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Examples

• Richard Ben Cramer explores the abduction of Olympic athlete Kari Swenson and the indefatigable sheriff who hunted her abductor.

• And nobody reckoned on Kari Swenson getting back to the ski trail so fast and so strong.

• Sure enough, two searchers from the dude ranch would have walked right past Kari and her captors.

• In fact, you could call Kari Swenson a proper belle of Bozeman, the perfect flower of the New West.

• The look was inspired by Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and the World War I spy Mata Hari.

• But Kari got lost himself; so when the cowherd had recovered entirely, I went to look for his cows and my lost elephant.

• The next time the fruit disappeared, I found a banana all smashed up in Kari's pavilion.

• It seemed as though a shiver ran through Kari's body, and he stopped stock still.

• The next summer Kari had grown so big and fat that I could not reach his back even when I stood on tiptoe.

• Kari did not eat much but he nevertheless needed forty pounds of twigs a day to chew and play with.