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Not that it makes it any better, but I'm pretty sure the 'big a*& cake' is a riff on a chain a prominent rapper wore, with a medallion that had ' big a#$ chain'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, having argued for a second root for sit that was *es- (which they relate to Sanskrit a:s-, Avestan a:s-/a:h-, Hittite eš-, and Greek he:stai 'sits'), they then suggest a connection to Hurrian ašš- and Urartean aš-, which then suggests a connection to Proto-Uralic *ase- (there should be an acute accent over the s) ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Good gracious," said he, "she has the voice of a----" (words failed him, in his astonishment) "the voice of a-- a monster!" ❋ Various (N/A)

The receiver consists of a closed box, K, in the interior of which there is a very intense source of light whose rays escape by passing through apertures, _a a'_, in the front part ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr. Tennyson (though he, too, would, as far as his true love is concerned, not unwillingly 'be an earring,' 'a girdle, 'and 'a necklace,' p. 45) in the more serious and solemn exordium of his works ambitions a bolder metamorphosis -- he wishes to be -- _a river_! ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)

For this reason the tube, TT ', is provided with a notch opposite the piece _a m l_, and the two arms, _a_ and _m_, of the latter are shaped like a V, as may be seen in part in the plan in Fig. 2. ❋ Various (N/A)

As an example of the use of the cross to denote a square, we have Figure 124, which represents a piece having a hexagon head, section _a_, _a'_, that is rectangular, a collar _b_, a square part _c_, and a round stem _d_. ❋ Joshua Rose (N/A)

She went away right in the midst of a-- of a difference of opinion we were having; she didn't even let me know she was going, and never wrote a line to me, and then came back telling everybody she'd had 'a perfectly gorgeous time! ' ❋ Unknown (1918)

"Because pretty near all he had on was a towel an 'a-- a sort of a---- immodes' britch-cloth," explained Guy Little confidentially. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)

He's a-- a cross between a Republican mule and a party-bolting boa-constrictor, an 'a hybrid like that hasn't got any place in nature. ❋ Marie Conway Oemler (1905)

"Do I understand that you are a-- a----" He hesitated to describe his companion in misfortune, realizing that it was a very delicate position. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

"Sing a song 'a vic'try, A pocketful 'a bullets, Five an 'twenty dead men Baked in a-- pie." ❋ Unknown (1895)

_You may also do a little word-formation of your own on occasion, and enact that a person good, at exposition shall be known as a_ clarifier, _a sensible one as a_ cogitant, _or a pantomime as a_ manuactor. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)

First cut grooves across both ways with a V tool, dividing the grapes as at _a a_, then with a gouge turned hollow down round each line of grapes into rolls as at _b b_. ❋ George Jack (1894)

"I been thinkin ', since," I faltered, floundering in search of a simile, "that you're like a-- like a----" ❋ Norman Duncan (1893)

The author of the _Expansion of England_ will probably agree with Burke in thinking that 'a great empire and little minds go ill together, 'and so, surely, _a fortiori_, must a mighty universe and any possible maxim. ❋ Augustine Birrell (1891)

Or will that exquisite, that soulful nature call for a stronger mate, a more concentrated temperament, a-- a---- ❋ Anna Katharine Green (1890)

There is analogy between _a b c d e_ and _g h a i f_ through the common letter _a_; between _g h a i f_ and _x y f z q_ through the common letter _f_; and finally an analogy becomes established between _a ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)