straining

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run road a jcb is	straining	at its gears wandering willies
ingenuity in inventing devices for	straining	fencing wire even though there
point and levered round a	straining	post to make it taut
complacently fairberry s would be	straining	every sinew to sign up
carrying stones eyes blind from	straining	at needles the speaker uses
mushroom on a huge stalk	straining	towards her later she realised