pillar-and-breast

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Examples

• As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

• Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.

• The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.

• She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

• "Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

• It is something which takes side in the child's breast with the reasonable governor and the laws which he or she administers.

• Alessandro walked at the horses' heads, his face sunk on his breast, his eyes fixed on the ground.

• We laid him down gently, folded his arms on his breast, and for a moment held our peace in tribute to his passing.