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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Agog refer to an inner state: dreaming, longing, desire, imagination. Agawk makes the inner world nakedly visible.
I was agawk when the performers stood full frontal nude on the stage.
Fringe festival
He was agawk at her beauty.
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her eyes were wide open and her mouth was agawk, face frozen in fear.
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Andrina, Adella and Attina are just agawk at how Ariel, the youngest, could be so in love
Cartoon fans
What I found were two extremely confident pigs who apparently had read Animal Farm and clearly felt all animals are equal – except for pigs who are entitled to be in charge. The entire barnyard was a gawk. Standing back they gave these swine a wide birth.
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Upon receiving my Chicken Burrito, all eyes were agawk. It was MASSIVE.
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I love it! Goes with aghasp , I think, and other gawkwardnesses (Post #70 on this looong but still fascinating topic).
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Great start for the new year. It’s all downhill from here….
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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