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hooked shot in cricket

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  • "Besides, " he added, mopping his brow with a fold of his plaid, -if ye pass out, you'll be less trouble to hoik about.
  • But this wasn't the time to be rehashing the past, if Cutter had found her, the others couldn't be far behind and it was time to hoik up her robes and run.
  • With her ballsy no-nonsense approach to fashion, she will inspire children all over the country to hoik their protruding guts over a set of combat trousers.
  • Much as I despise Wikipedia, I despise far more those pirate sites that just hoik the entire lot in wholesale, with cavalier disregard for formatting and storage space.
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