When the curtain rises after intermission, the set is bare and the main character finds himself alone. |
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There was a rug in the front room of the house, but the other floors were bare. |
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Maybe, just maybe he'd be able to get the message across if he stripped it down to its bare bones. |
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The bare bones of an already-anemic effort to fight the epidemic in West Africa that is threatening to destroy the entire region. |
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The ruins lie upon a promontory, bare and unmystified by the gloom of surrounding groves. |
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There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body. |
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Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky. |
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Many bees warped and spun about us, and some even alighted on Grandfather's bare head, or on his neck. He did not disturb them. |
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Because of the Depression, many people came to associate bare feet with poverty, indolence, or general white-trashery. |
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The walls below are bare, but for a few glazed bricks and a peculiar three-windowed bay that reminds one of a villa in Clapham. |
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With the jeans part way down and the upper slopes of her white-pantied bottom exposed, Penny gasped as Mark's knuckles grazed her bare stomach. |
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Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress. |
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The company cooking utensils were scoured every day, and the camp was as clean as bare, turfless earth could be. |
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He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday. |
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The risk of burns or fire is also greater with bare bulbs, leading to their prohibition in some places unless enclosed by the luminaire. |
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The chapel's current bare and unadorned appearance is reminiscent of how it would have been in the Norman period. |
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A section of canvas was intentionally left bare until the painting was finished. |
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Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a giant's sword that he found in her lair. |
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In 1817, bare flame gaslight had replaced the former candles and oil lamps that lighted the Covent Garden stage. |
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Still, throughout this period, there arose some notable bare knuckle champions who developed fairly sophisticated fighting tactics. |
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I doubt whether we shall be able to pay for the bare minimum necessary for our defence. |
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The hydrogen cation is written as though composed of a bare proton, but in reality, hydrogen cations in ionic compounds are always more complex. |
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Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton. |
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Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies. |
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Apart from these bare facts, nothing certain can be gathered from contemporary accounts. |
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The dresses will be narrower at the hips, midriffs bare and the classic skirt will take on newfashion impetus. |
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During the last ice age, the topsoil was scraped off, leaving mostly bare rock. |
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The summits of the Cuillin are bare rock, jagged in outline and with steep cliffs and deep cut corries and gullies. |
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She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards. |
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It is said the nut heads are flat-faced and bare on a flat surface, but the means by which loosening is prevented has not been indicated. |
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Turtles spend most of their first five years in convergence zones within the bare open ocean that surround them. |
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Many of the small islands are bare rock, but the larger islands have a layer of clay subsoil and peat soil supporting vegetation. |
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The terns are birds of open habitats that typically breed in noisy colonies and lay their eggs on bare ground with little or no nest material. |
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The white tern is unique in that it lays its single egg on a bare tree branch. |
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He described the distinguishing characteristics as a straight bill hooked at the tip, linear nostrils, a bare face, and fully webbed feet. |
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By testing the soil and modeling the bare minimum amount of fertilizer are needed, farmers reap economic benefits while reducing pollution. |
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They have their chests bare and backs naked to the loins, they cover their thighs with either leather or linen. |
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The female develops a brood patch of bare skin and plays the main part in incubating the eggs. |
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Some television show hosts, like Bill Haast, Austin Stevens, Steve Irwin, and Jeff Corwin, prefer to catch them using bare hands. |
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The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin on his body. |
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They are able to grow on inhospitable surfaces, including bare soil, rocks, tree bark, wood, shells, barnacles and leaves. |
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Lichens are pioneer species, among the first living things to grow on bare rock or areas denuded of life by a disaster. |
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It is locally abundant on Bryher and thousands can be found in May in short turf and bare sand. |
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In the spider monkey, the tip of the tail has either a bare patch or adhesive pad, which provides increased friction. |
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The head and neck of both male and female ostriches is nearly bare, with a thin layer of down. |
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These animals had bare ossicones and small cranial sinuses and were longer with broader skulls. |
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The northern hills, since urbanized, were bare and covered with traditional graves. |
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When they left, she paced the house, proprietorially, feeling the feel of each stone in the paving with bare feet. |
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In their uses as modals they govern a bare infinitive, and are usually restricted to questions and negative sentences. |
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The minder then depressing the faller, so far as to guide the threads upon the bare spindle below. |
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A few turns are wound onto the spindle, to fix the threads to the bare spindles for a new set. |
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During periods of dry weather the water level drops revealing a wide band of bare exposed rock. |
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A limestone pavement is an area of almost bare, flat rock and is arguably the most fascinating feature of any area of carboniferous limestone. |
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One terminal of the power energizer releases an electrical pulse along a connected bare wire about once per second. |
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The Richat Structure of the Sahara is considered a dome that has been laid bare by erosion. |
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Holmes's powers unravel the mystery, and lay bare what villainies there are to be exposed. |
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He had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse's button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems. |
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The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush. |
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The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall. |
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But the women are alwayes covered about their middles with a skin, and very shamefast to be seene bare. |
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Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body. |
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The baked potatoes were too hot to handle with our bare hands. |
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Her office was pretty bare, having only one desk and one chair. |
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He had a glove on his left hand, but his right hand was bare. |
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It was freezing in the tiled cubicle and her bare nipples reacted predictably to the blast of cool air. |
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Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns. |
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Ay-me, to whom did I reserve, to discover that singular and loving affection, which in my soule I bare unto him? |
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A badine, or switch, dangles in the hand of the beau, whose bare head is dressed with enormous curls, and a fore-top. |
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The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves. |
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The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water. |
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He had only been taught the bare bones of the system, but carried on regardless. |
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The foreign companies would punish Bolivia by refusing to invest and only sustaining the bare minimum of operations here. |
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It is the old problem of what a victor is to do with the vanquished, if the the latter is to gain the bare minimum of economic independence. |
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About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. |
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And many readers could provide me with tales of rulers across knuckles, slaps on bare legs, heads cracked together, and mighty ear-cloutings. |
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In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back. |
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I know some who consentingly have acquired both profit and advancement from cuckoldom, of which the bare name only affrights so many people. |
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As waiters brought trays of meat, the guests reached over and harvested the pink slices with their bare hands, popping them down the hatch. |
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Tradition demanded that vassals approach their liege unarmed with heads bare. |
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Boyles crouched against the wall in puris naturalibus, while Ned wrapped the magician's cape around his bare legs and flagged down the coach. |
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The pinnacles were left bare until 1925, when replica statues were installed. |
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Since, currently, only a subdomain can be used in a CNAME, the same result cannot be achieved by using the bare domain root. |
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I'm in charge of a whole city block, and I always wear gloves when I touch the yay, cuz traces of cocaine show up on my u. a., when I touch it with my bare hands. |
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I go to the window again in my terry-cloth robe, my heart pumping, a zizzy bee-sting quiver down my arms and legs, my bare feet cold on the floor planks. |
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Even the reduction of periodical names to this bare univerbalism, however, does not mean that the fundamental principles of poetics have been abandoned. |
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He was quite an imposing spectacle in his bare feet, with his trousers rolled up to his great knees, thereby revealing his scarlet flannel underdrawers. |
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Catfish are often caught with one's bare hands, gutted, breaded, and fried to make a Southern variation on English fish and chips and turtles are turned into stews and soups. |
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A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices. |
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The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being. |
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Turpin beat Lawrence's bare buttocks with his pistols, badly bruising him, and other members of the gang beat him around the head with their pistols. |
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A shift in structure from bare tidal flat to pastureland resulted from increased sedimentation and the cordgrass extended out into other estuaries around New Zealand. |
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The bathroom door stood agape, and the peeling vinyl floor was bare. |
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The bare hill top was once covered by woodland that may have been destroyed by fire and it is thought that the hill was once inhabited, though no remains have been found. |
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If an ice sheet were ablated down to bare ground, less light from the sun would be reflected back into space and more would be absorbed by the land. |
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They grow on bare rock, walls, gravestones, roofs, exposed soil surfaces. |
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The nest is a bare scrape on taiga, meadow, and similar habitats. |
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Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. |
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It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. |
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The white tern, uniquely, lays its single egg on a bare tree branch. |
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The nightjar may lay its eggs on the bare ground under the bracken. |
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SoftLayer is focused on bare metal servers. Bare metal servers provide a higher level of freedom for the businesses in choosing their virtual servers. |
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Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on. |
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In addition, women must not show bare midriffs or shoulders. |
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The Belgian colonies, if they adhere to these limits, must provide for all their wants at a lower cost by one half than the French as a bare minimum. |
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Her thoughts wandered about among the various friends whose judgment might serve at this crisis to clear her own thoughts.... No, she could not bare her soul to the bishop. |
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The major impact of the war, in which mercenary armies were extensively used, was the devastation of entire regions scavenged bare by the foraging armies. |
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A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel. |
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This is admittedly the bare basics of journalism, and one would hope it took more than simple journalistic blocking and tackling to become our most trusted practitioner. |
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It is unnecessary after this description to remind the young boardsman that no net is put on inside the mount, all the middle portion being left bare. |
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Usually the chicotte was applied to the victim's bare buttocks. |
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The old wicker rocker creaked as Josh pushed back and forth in it, back and forth, back and forth, his bare feet slapping against the boards of the pizer with each rock. |
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The combatants are armed with sword and shield and may wear linen and leather clothing, but their head and feet must be bare and their hands only protected by light gloves. |
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They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. |
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There was a bare wooden floor, and in one corner a large radiogramophone. |
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As in many acciptrids, the bare portion of the feet is yellow. |
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There's as dyky as Sappho herself and bare to the bottom as a newborn. |
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In her flowy skirt, with her flowy hair, bare feet, and still the single eyebrow, she reads a poem that sounds like it came straight from English class. |
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This young woman had a long bare neck that reminded Amory of an artist's model, and her hands were thrust into the fore-pockets of a brown knitted coat. |
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Don't touch me, you fuckass, I'll kill you with my bare hands. |
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He splashed some tepid water on his face from the basin beside his bed and took his time squatting in the garderobe, the night air cold on his bare skin. |
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Unlike Shakespeare, though, the dialogue is stripped to the bare minimum by the apes' rudimentary language, which is rather refreshing since everyone gets to the point. |
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The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected. |
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Creaking leather and the snorting of mules, snatches of off-key ballads, the clop of hooves and the patter of bare soles, the rattle of hayforks and lances. |
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Whether or not the biological universe exists hologrammatically in each of us, we can see that we are in the bare infancy of understanding the genetic code and who we are. |
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All bare parts are yellow in color, including both the bill and the legs. |
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For example, they use their wings to cover the naked skin of the upper legs and flanks to conserve heat, or leave these areas bare to release heat. |
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They are best planted as bare root plants in late summer, in a sunny open position with the rhizome visible on the surface of the soil and facing the sun. |
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Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head. |
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One field was bare, its surface of an ochreish colour deeper than that of clay, broken and smoothed as perfectly as the surface of the most carefully tended flower-bed. |
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