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BulbThis article is about the botanical term. For the electric bulb, see light bulb.
In botany, a bulb is a modified leaf bud that sprouts roots from its base. It comprises fleshy leaf scales that store a reserve supply of food, allowing the plant to survive adverse weather conditions. See onion, and lily. All true lilies have bulbs or corms. See lily family. Compare with corm[?], rhizome, or tuber. Bulb is one of the very few words in the English language that doesn't rhyme with anything. See List of English words without rhymes. box.
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suppose?
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one? Faults on both sides?
RUTH. Only that I never bowed down to him. I don't see why I
things nice.
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seat among the witnesses.
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present.
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7th, and tell the jury what happened.
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to get her breath at all; there were the marks of his fingers round
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out of my senses for fear that he'd do it again, and thinking what I
couldn't fix my mind on anything. I couldn't think at all. I seemed
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hand--I don't know how it came, but it just flashed across me that if
away. It just came and went--I never thought of it again. Then
did till I'd pushed the cheque through to the cashier under the rail.
I'd done. Anyway, when I got outside I wanted to chuck myself under
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