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  • 81A Bit of Singing and Dancing — is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill. It was published in 1973. It has been described as a vivid picture of the loneliness of old age . [Ronald Carter and John McRae. The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and …

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  • 82sheep's bit — ▪ plant       (Jasione montana), annual to biennial herb of the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), bearing clustered heads of blue flowers. The plants grow scattered in sandy or acid fields or meadows, and they also grow on cliffsides. Sheep s… …

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  • 83a bit off — / a bit mental not rational, unbalanced, one brick short    Kate talks to the birds. Do you think she s a bit off? …

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  • 84rab´bit|er — rab|bit «RAB iht», noun, verb. –n. 1. a) a burrowing animal about as big as a cat, with soft fur, a short, fluffy tail, long hind legs, and long ears. Rabbits can make long jumps and run very fast and they are sometimes raised for food or fur.… …

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  • 85rab|bit — «RAB iht», noun, verb. –n. 1. a) a burrowing animal about as big as a cat, with soft fur, a short, fluffy tail, long hind legs, and long ears. Rabbits can make long jumps and run very fast and they are sometimes raised for food or fur. They are… …

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  • 86Bon-Bon (short story) — Infobox short story | name = Bon Bon title orig = The Bargain Lost translator = author = Edgar Allan Poe country = United States language = English series = genre = Satirical short story published in = publisher = Philadelphia Saturday Courier… …

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  • 87in the short run — in the long/short run a long or short time in the future. It means spending a bit now, but in the long run it ll save us a lot of money. Although prices may rise in the short run, they should begin to fall again by the end of the year …

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  • 88The Portrait (short story) — The Portrait is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol. It is the story of a young artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is one of Gogols’ most demonic of tales, hinting at …

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  • 89Lip bit — Lip Lip (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l[ a]pp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. {Labial}.] 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other… …

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  • 90A Bit of Luck for Mabel — is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the December 26 1925 issue of The Saturday Evening Post , and in the United Kingdom in the May 1926 Strand . It was included in the collection Eggs, Beans, and… …

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