Examples of cowboy

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When children pretend to be cowboys, the drama is driven partly by independent facts.
Instead of very effeminate men, both of the main characters are masculine cowboys.
Many a factory worker had once aspired to becoming a ballet dancer, many a mortgaged commuter dreamt of the carefree life of gipsies or cowboys.
The market would punish the cowboys very quickly.
The trick has to be to cover up the original text, meditate on the illustrations, and write what real cowboys and gamblers might have said.
They faced the camera in their dungarees and jeans and cowboy-style holsters and knee-high boots.
By that point, however, many people around the world were already using such cowboy analogies negatively.
Romance is portrayed as similar to the relationship between cowboy and animal, elements of the natural world united by their lack of individuality.
Each cowboy must be a rider to exercise the horses.
The previous text is also linked to the following two messages, describing injuries in cowboy polo and in gymnastics.
The cameraman adored the director of the actors who was wearing cowboy boots.
The cameraman adored the director of the actor who was wearing cowboy boots.
With structural conformance, a cowboy could be used where a rectangle is expected, possibly resulting in troublesome runtime errors.
The cowboy has effectively erased the presence of the vaquero and substituted that historical figure with a colonizing figure who eventually came to preside over the southwestern landscape.
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