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is a famous United States bondage model and later producer and director who became notable in the 1980s for performing for several of the successful bondage film and magazine companies of that era, most notably for Harmony Concepts and House of…

   Debate poetry was a medieval tradition characterized by an argument or discussion between two opposed parties. The issue of the debate might be a serious philosophical, theological, or moral tradition, or it might concern some question of…

(1958) 2 All ER 527 is an England and Wales Court of Appeal judgment dealing with the issue of standard of care in English tort law. The question in the case was what standard of care could be expected of a person who carries out repairs in his…

   If you test the waters, or test the water, you experiment to see how successful or acceptable something is before implementing it.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you test the water(s), you try to find out how acceptable or…

adj. Voracious is used with these nouns: ↑appetite, ↑eater, ↑reader

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