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#1 2015-10-21 07:32:45

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Hymning and whoring

Those who don’t get the imitative nature of hemming and hawing will understandably cast about for similar sounding words to anchor to. Instead of dithering, you might be wavering between needlework and bodice-ripping.

I pretend to fumble for change when you want stop hemming and whoring behind me so you can order another hamburger….you already ate three wasn’t that enough?
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I don’t know what sprint did to my service last night when i was hemming and whoring at them on the phone but suddenly today, facebook comes right up no problems
geek 4 geek

i’ve been hemming and whoring over this stock for quite a while.at the present moment i think i’m just gonna stick with the synthetic stock that the gun came with.
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Wow, what a reel. Thing is beyond light and tight. After hemming and whoring for an hour or so I’ve got a deal on two of these beauties
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when I called a person answered with an accent that was so strong I could baily understand. I asked if I was talking to a person in the united stated and after hemming and whoring I was told yes He was from the united states in the PHILLIPINES.
trip advice

Surprisingly, no credible humming and whoring. Nor hymning and whoring, more is the pity. The angelic end of the spectrum of respectability can be reached, however, while hymning and hawing.

Spent half the day hymning and hawing with inspectors to determine the septic drainage location, then we finally got started.
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After a bit of hymning and hawing, he confessed that while we were apart he’d slept with his ex-girlfriend.
novel

Studies have specifically shown that with the definite certainty of punishment (no hymning and hawing), crime rates @
“decline with an increase in arrest rates”
for death

Me hymning and hawing on my opinion on white privilege and why the 2nd KKK got so popular.
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After months of hymning and hawing I made the decision to raise the funds to meet one of my blogging goals.
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#2 2015-10-25 13:43:48

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1224

Re: Hymning and whoring

Nor hymning and whoring, more is the pity.

And what a pity it is. Here’s a poor simbling to stretch the set a little more.

I don’t see men the way I used too, I like them as friends but that’s all, I’ve been humming and horning with myself for a while just to admit how I really feel.

The doctors at the meeting kept hemming and horning that they weren’t going to do it, but instead of just saying it directly and letting me go…

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#3 2015-10-27 16:35:35

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1690

Re: Hymning and whoring

The hummers and horners must make an interesting symphony. Another musical family member provides spiritual background music to support the effort of mental negociation.

OP: I have been reading on my town’s local, unofficial website, and oh my. At one point someone was hymning and hauling.
R: Hmmm, perhaps it’s an alternate title for “Bringing in the Sheaves”?
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Thats funny. Do you actually think there was negotiating going on ? I’d call it hymning and hauling. (sp)
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