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In the majority of alternades, every second letter is used to make two smaller words, but in some cases, every third letter is used to make three smaller words. Theoretically, a very long word could use every fourth letter to make four smaller words; e.g., «partitioned» is an alternade for «pin», «ate», «rid», and «to».
Pounced is a Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf-winning thoroughbred racehorse owned by Lady Rothschild. He was retired to stud in 2010. He was retired to stud in 2010. He is a son of Rahy who stands in Kentucky and the Storm Cat mare Golden Cat .
Encouraged by Dostoyevsky who (mistakenly) informed him that Professor N.N.Grigoryev, the chief of the governmental Press and Publishing department, expressed his willingness to lift the ban from the publication of the poem's final part, Nekrasov asked the latter for help in a personal letter: "I made some concessions according to the censor ...
A pounce wheel, also known as a tracing wheel. Pouncing (Italian Spolvero) is an art technique used for transferring an image from one surface to another using a fine powder called pounce.
The then mighty Catholic Church pounced on him, and first condemned Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin and Ix-Xirka ta' l-Imdawlin, [31] and shortly afterward excommunicated Dimech himself. [32] Though this was an overwhelmingly devastating blow in all respects in Malta of the 1910s, Dimech was undaunted.
Viewers have to guess which remaining two letters complete the word. There are often a large number of possibilities as to what the word is. If they get it right an envelope (that is present on-screen throughout the entire game to prove there was no underhand trickery) containing the answer is opened and shown to the viewer.
“Since you are going to disrobe Persky, I am going to treat you like ‘Emily Doe,’” wrote the person who sent Dauber a letter containing white powder. Over the next year and a half, Dauber raised more than $1 million from over 5,000 donors, most of whom contributed less than $100.
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards , displaying examples of fonts , and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the ...