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Another portrays her leaning on a wooden chair and a final image shows her clambering on a wicker chair, playfully glancing back towards the camera.
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In traditional imagery, she is depicted holding a branch and a scepter, and may be leaning on a column.
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As long as those signboards existed, teasers used to stand leaning on the wooden posts of those and whistle at girls.
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Miles is distressed about the council tax and his father's death, he starts to cry leaning on the wall which collapses from under him.
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One can also sit with the legs unbent, using something solid as support for the back or leaning on one's arms.
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Crouching and leaning on the scaffold surrounding the platform is allowed, but touching them with one's hands is not.
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Many years ago he carved the initials of his first love on the lamp post he is leaning on.
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The building on the photograph taken around the 1920s had no boarding, with the board roof leaning on lengthwise raising-plates and no entrance-room.
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But we mosey around the back of the building and see a curly-haired young paramedic leaning on an emergency car, smoking a cigarette.
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The figure appears to be leaning on the banister as being pulled up the stairs.
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