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Once in awhile I get it to zip up, but most of the time the pocket bulges on the verge of breaking open and becoming completely ruined.
Stalking the stage like an animal ever on the verge of pouncing, hands stuffed deep in the pockets of his cardigan — as if only vigilant restraint could keep him from pummeling everyone in his orbit — Mr. Letts's George sets the production's tone of incipient threat from the opening moments.
Cibulkova — a diminutive, go-go Slovak very appropriately nicknamed "The Pocket Rocket" — has twice been on the verge of knocking out Azarenka's defenses in the past two years.
After all, the Dow is once again on the verge of ten thousand, Wall Street traders are getting ready to pocket their heftiest bonuses in years, and Google is planning the biggest Internet I.P.O.
Yes, that is a lot of money but it is downright pocket change compared with what they cost now, verging on the four-figure mark, even soaring past it in the case of the fanciest of Christian Louboutin and Yves Saint Laurent doo-dads.
Fire authorities are on the verge of fully extinguishing the Tubbs fire in Sonoma and Napa counties and Sonoma County's Pocket fire, both of which are at 99percentt containment. .
As for Kline, with his lupine smile, his silk cravats, and his handkerchief crisply folded in his breast pocket, he reminds us that wolves can have wonderful manners, right up to the verge of the pounce.
He decided to write me after visiting a family that was on the verge of bankruptcy because of what they have to pay for insurance coverage and out-of-pocket expenses.
On the verge of emotional collapse, she looked pleadingly into the singer's eyes, hugged him, slipped a note into his pocket, all the while singing with the Colombian idol.
The highest grossing lot in the vintage pocket watch category at Christie's last year was a gold, enamel, diamond and ruby-set pocket watch with verge escapement movement and Turkish numerals, made for the Ottoman market and date-stamped 1783.
