When the diners finally file out, the corpse of a lion is sprawled across the table.

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By dessert, he was almost sprawled across the table and she was practically falling off her chair.

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The hospital campus sprawled across two city blocks, with a series of three- and four-story stucco buildings separated by golfing-green lawns and black asphalt parking lots.

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The advertising campaign for American brand Kohler's Shaker-inspired "Tresham" collection, meanwhile, features bathrooms with books propped on floors, paintings and personal memorabilia on the walls, and even dogs sprawled across floors.

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Besides, even though the walls of his office are of the traditional opaque variety, he confessed that he has a camera trained on his desk so that his co-workers, now almost 100 of them sprawled across an expanding series of offices around the building, as well as in Boston and Santa Monica, can see what he's up to at all times.

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He was a noted opponent of fox hunting and had a passion for cats, many of which, over the years sprawled happily across the papers on his desk while he worked.

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The premise is the same in the comic book as the film: In the future, Mega-City One has urban-sprawled its way across the East Coast of America, covering the area from Boston to Washington DC.

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Monday's account offered the first Algerian government narrative of the four-day standoff, from the moment of the attempted bus hijacking to the moment when the attackers began to prepare to explode bombs across the massive gas plant that sprawled over 5 square kilometers ( 2 square miles).

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