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Usage examples of bits.

The Sunhoose fire wi the wee twirly bits in the veneered teak surrounds has seen better days.

He nodded toward the shell of the cabin, where a few bits of furniture still held their fragile shapes.

There was virtually nothing left inside, though the chimney stack still stood, and jagged bits of the walls remained, their logs fallen like jackstraws.

Jamie pursed his lips, his gaze traveling slowly over the earth of the yardbut the ground was churned with footsteps, clumps of grass uprooted and the whole of the yard dusted with ash and bits of charred wood.

Being female, I would get impeccable courtesy and small bits of social gossip in the meantime.

Here, he told us the story of his adventures, in a disjoint fashion punctuated by small yelps as I cleaned the injury, clipped bits of clotted hair away, and put five or six stitches into his scalp.

All I did was quote bits of some psalmI couldna even tell ye which it was.

She nodded at the betrothed couple, who were feeding each other bits of cake.

Bree smiled at me, her hand gently stroking his glossy black hair, picking bits of hay out of it.

Jamie was flipping to and fro, picking out random bits of Scripture, but Christie was with him now, speaking the words along with him.

With the tendons gleaming softly in their beds, I removed the last bits of the aponeurosis, sprayed the wound with a mixture of alcohol and distilled water for disinfection, and set about closing the incisions.

Then he kicked it again, and again, and stamped on it with such violence that bits of wood flew across the kitchen and struck the pie safe with little pinging sounds.

He felt a drop of cold, sudden on his shoulder, and the scattered parts of him drew at once together like shattered bits of quicksilver, to leave him quaking and appalled.

Add in assorted knobbly swellings, flecks of crusty black for the split lip and the scabby bits, and I was undoubtedly quite the picture of health.

I rose with sudden decision and began to tidy my cupboards, lining up bottles in order of size, sweeping out bits of scattered herbs, throwing away solutions gone stale or suspect.