Like most writers of westerns, he relied on movies for much of his imagery, but Leonard had taken the time to do a modicum of fact-finding, about which he would later be characteristically self-deprecating: "I cribbed most of my research.
Given an average price point of around $200 — a number I cribbed from its website's listed prices and a conversation with its founding team — Jack Erwin has already generated more revenue than many a failed startup.
Happy Election Day! *I cribbed this perfect turn of phrase from the Economist presidential endorsement.
I cribbed and sulked because I missed the blitz-krieg of four months of gluttony and decadence of festivals, which India offers.
They said I had to be twice as good as any doctoral candidate from a more prestigious university and I cribbed the old feminist line "Luckily, that's not too difficult".
"I just crib from my life".
Before she steps foot in my crib, I mop, I sweep, I do everything.
For a teacher, this is Bloom at his most useful: I have cribbed more classes than I care to admit from his readings of individual poems.
As I peer into her crib, I can't help but take pride in the fact that she can't even walk and she's already getting suspended from school.
Saying I prefer a crib but I'm ok with my friend sleeping with her kid isn't as interesting as saying I am a superior parent and that the attachment kids are going to end up in the trench coat mafia.
