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phoebe
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The Phoebe 2100 (or ) was to be Acorn Computers ' successor to the Risc PC , slated for release in late 1998. However in September 1998 Acorn cancelled the project as part of a restructuring of the company.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small North American flycatcher, pewit, 1700, phebe , so called in imitation of its cry; spelling altered (1839) by influence of the woman's proper name Phoebe .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo["o]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ( Sayornis ph[oe]be , or Sayornis fuscus ). Called also pewit , and ph[oe]be . The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a bird ( Contopus virens ) similar ...
Usage examples of phoebe.
The time involved was about half an hour, between seven-fifteen, when Phoebe Gunther left the baby carriage and its contents, including the monkey wrenches, with Boone in the room, and around seven forty-five, when Alger Kates discovered the body.
The hallucination of Barbas disappears and Phoebe sees Paige lying there unconscious.
Well then, Phoebe nannied some boys in the north for a while, and then the Cryer boy when his mother left when they first came here, that would be five years ago.
He was good at what he did, Equus told me, but he drank too much and had beaten Phoebe cruelly on several occasions.
But Cuno, apparently, had not been too drunk to remember what Equus had sworn to do to him if he ever maltreated Phoebe again.
They were beached on a wide mud flat at the confluence of Ophion and the river Arges, near the center of Phoebe.
They were called Clumsy, Trowneer, Phoebe, Colle, Gerland, Talbot, Luath, Luffra, Apollon, Orthros, Bran, Gelert, Bounce, Boy, Lion, Bungey, Toby and Diamond.
Clumsy, Trowneer, Phoebe, Colle, Gerland, Talbot, Luath, Luffra, Apollon, Orthros, Bran, Gelert, Bounce, Boy, Lion, Bungey, Toby, Diamond and Cavall were not pet dogs: they were the Forest Sauvage Hounds, no subscription, two days a week, huntsman the master.
I had them take off the quills, and put on some of those Phoebe Simms gave me from her peacocks.
Blandford Park with a letter from him to her ladyship, warning her that when he returned at the end of the week Salford would be accompanying him, she instantly sent for Phoebe to her dressing room.
Now, the long and the short of it is, Salford, that Phoebe and I were dashed well kidnapped!
The Lazerus demon uses his telekinetic powers on Leo and he flies across the room, knocking over Phoebe.
Then Arthur and Phoebe hurried into view and jumped into the Jeep, which tinnily turned on and jounced down the drive.
At this picture of the cattle inside the wagon, and the jackals supping on cold Hottentot alongside, Phoebe, who had no more humor than a cat, but a heart of gold, shut up, and turned red with confusion at her false estimate of the recent transaction in fur.
Phoebe pictured Maeve, sitting in regal splendor amid her pillows and her billet-doux, opining on the imbecility of love.