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The dim-witted creature knew exactly who had dangled from a rope ladder hastily lowered from a balloon and landed in the same spreading elm branches that the fluffy-tailed, beady-eyed menace called home.

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Ridge was coming back into focus, like a hastily reassembled puzzle.

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Greg Lippmann wrote back hastily and ungrammatically, “Would you like to give us some other bonds that we can tell you what we will pay you.”

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If you didn’t spend your formative years reading hastily penned blogs that ended with .mp3 embeds of dubious legality, it’s possible you don’t know who Grimes is.

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"Perhaps I acted a little hastily", he said, adding that he had "other concerns" at that time, which was marked by several militant attacks in Europe, and particularly in France.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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