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1  I'd rather have a goddam horse.
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2  He didn't feel like horsing around.
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3  Then I started horsing around a little bit.
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4  I was out of breath anyway, so I quit horsing around.
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5  I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place.
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6  I call people a "prince" quite often when I'm horsing around.
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7  Sometimes I horse around quite a lot, just to keep from getting bored.
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8  I think he knew we were horsing around, because old Phoebe always starts giggling.
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9  I certainly began to feel like a prize horse's ass, though, sitting there all by myself.
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10  It looked pretty as hell, and we all started throwing snowballs and horsing around all over the place.
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11  What I liked about her, she didn't give you a lot of horse manure about what a great guy her father was.
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12  They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence.
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13  Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass.
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14  She's not little enough any more to go stark staring mad in the toy department, but she enjoys horsing around and looking at the people.
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15  Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a helluva lot of trouble just finding what I'm looking for, for God's sake, if you know what I mean.
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16  While the father kept giving him a lot of advice, old Ophelia was sort of horsing around with her brother, taking his dagger out of the holster, and teasing him and all while he was trying to look interested in the bull his father was shooting.
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17  I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it.
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