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  • Lifting and extending her neck, Saphira nipped the venison, spit and all, from Roran's other hand.†   (source)
  • Lacy understood hunting as both a sport and an evolutionary claim; she even knew how to make an excellent venison stew and teriyaki goose and enjoyed whatever meal Lewis's hobby put on the table.†   (source)
  • He hunted for meat—he gave the venison to members of his family—and then, when he had got the meat he needed, he hunted for trophies.†   (source)
  • I do hunt venison once a year.†   (source)
  • I hope you've got a buffalo liver or a haunch of venison on you to tide you over.†   (source)
  • This big woman knew how to hack a haunch out of a side of venison but also how to fashion fancies of the finest spun sugar.†   (source)
  • I start for one of the doors, thinking of venison or even guns.†   (source)
  • It would be quail, or venison, or fish.†   (source)
  • "That's exactly why we're doing it," muttered the Agent, plucking a fancy-looking cheese and some smoked venison from the captain's private stores.†   (source)
  • I hung the fresh cuts of venison up in the dog run, right where Old Yeller had stolen the hog meat the night he came.†   (source)
  • Doctor Cornelius quickly cut up the remains of a cold chicken and some slices of venison and put them, with bread and an apple or so and a little flask of good wine, into the wallet which he then gave to Caspian.†   (source)
  • Under a huge copper hood, a whole side of venison was turning above a fire that begged and devoured its drippings.†   (source)
  • "Venison," Kessell whispered aloud.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, he'd cook venison or wild boar.†   (source)
  • When I entered the cabin Mike was frying a panful of venison steak, while Ootek looked on.†   (source)
  • The chili was thick, red like fresh blood, and full of dried corn and fresh venison.†   (source)
  • Frederic, supposing this meant an Irrakwa chef, had braced himself for another tedious Red meal of tough deer gristle--one could hardly call such fare venison--but instead the chef was, of all things, a Frenchman!†   (source)
  • Hanging from the smoke-stained rafters were quarters of lamb and venison, strings of onions, and Homer's axes, hammers and saws.†   (source)
  • If a man said aloud, "I will pursue the deer here; I will seek the bear there," some woman would hear him, and ten minutes later all the wives of the tribe would be promising each other venison and bear steaks, and discussing how to cook them, and the spirits that lived in the bear and the deer would hear them, and the game would hide.†   (source)
  • I don't greatly care for venison or bear or moose or elk except for the livers.†   (source)
  • Long, thin slices of venison hung on the rack, drying and curing in the smoke and slow heat.†   (source)
  • Rather than speak to order or describe, he would always draw a deer with a stroke across it to communicate his need of venison to an Indian.†   (source)
  • For dinner, there's minced venison in the stew.†   (source)
  • Meat, Brian had time to think—he's smelled the venison and come for it.†   (source)
  • Hobb had cooked up a venison stew, thick with barley, onions, and carrots.†   (source)
  • Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.†   (source)
  • Lord Nestor has prepared a feast to welcome you, mushroom soup and venison and cakes.†   (source)
  • There's venison to come, and capons stuffed with leeks and mushrooms."†   (source)
  • I grab a bowl of venison stew and a heel of bread and scarf them down as fast as I can.†   (source)
  • She fed him cold roast venison and coffee.†   (source)
  • 'That's a nice tender haunch of venison,' said one of them.†   (source)
  • In the Merman's Court they are eating lamprey pie and venison with roasted chestnuts.†   (source)
  • 22 was much in the way of a venison rifle.†   (source)
  • It's still warm," said Roran, and waved the venison in front of Eragon.†   (source)
  • "No, but I can get you venison," the bartender said.†   (source)
  • The main course was venison that had been roasting over the rubycolored pits of charcoal.†   (source)
  • The battle took place in a thicket on the Brazos, where Aus Frank had stopped to cook some venison.†   (source)
  • Privately, I thought venison was secondary.†   (source)
  • I guess the things stored in that room had more bang than venison and guns.†   (source)
  • But the thought of venison makes my mouth water.†   (source)
  • That night they had venison and Lorena ate with real appetite for the first time.†   (source)
  • "Would you bring Captain Call a glass, and some of that venison?" he said.†   (source)
  • He was finally eating the plate of cold venison when Gus came to his senses briefly.†   (source)
  • The bartender brought a plate of venison, but he had no appetite.†   (source)
  • Louis Lippo has brought a piece of venison bigger than you.†   (source)
  • Thinking of deer, he was hungry for venison.†   (source)
  • It had been a long time since he had eaten venison.†   (source)
  • And, frankly, he didn't care for venison anyway.†   (source)
  • The venison cooked with a tantalizing odor.†   (source)
  • " "There's a piece of venison behind, and Mr. Trask brought a little something.†   (source)
  • He had been hungry for red meat, for venison, and here it was, practically in his frying pan.†   (source)
  • Louis had cut down the venison and Adam provided a bottle of whisky.†   (source)
  • He slid the door back in place and put the pot on the fire and dropped a piece of venison into it to make a breakfast stew.†   (source)
  • We'll thank you kindly for the mount and for the venison, and you and your brother can be on your way."†   (source)
  • Slowly Brian reached to his right, where the meat was stored back in the corner, and took a piece of the venison.†   (source)
  • Jovial Lord Hornwood had no daughters, but he did bring gifts, a horse one day, a haunch of venison the next, a silver-chased hunting horn the day after, and he asked nothing in return …. nothing but a certain hold-fast taken from his grandfather, and hunting rights north of a certain ridge, and leave to dam the White Knife, if it please the lord.†   (source)
  • He took the last of the jellied meat in the pot, added a piece of red venison, and put it on the side of the fire to cook while he took stock of his situation.†   (source)
  • Roran could clearly see the thin layer of yellow fat underneath his skin and, below it, the dark red muscle of his chest, which was the same color as a slice of raw venison.†   (source)
  • My cook knew little beyond his roasts and stews, and Lynesse soon lost her taste for fish and venison.†   (source)
  • There were soups that would make your mouth water to think of, and the lovely fishes called pavenders, and venison and peacock and pies, and ices and jellies and fruit and nuts, and all manner of wines and fruit drinks.†   (source)
  • Afterward trestle tables were set up beneath the small flint tower, and they feasted on quail, venison, and roast boar, washing it down with a fine light mead.†   (source)
  • Before them were soups and stews filled with various tubers, roasted venison, long hot loaves of sourdough bread, and rows of honeycakes dripped with raspberry preserve.†   (source)
  • If the hunters were also fond of venison a few quarters would be cut off and thrown aboard the plane, which would then depart southward.†   (source)
  • Hot mulled wine and a bowl of venison stewed with onions, and Hobb's bread right out of the oven, so hot it will burn your fingers."†   (source)
  • It was not such a breakfast as they would have chosen, for Caspian and Cornelius were thinking of venison pasties, and Peter and Edmund of buttered eggs and hot coffee, but what everyone got was a little bit of cold bear-meat (out of the boys' pockets), a lump of hard cheese, an onion, and a mug of water.†   (source)
  • We first heard the bulls while we were eating our dinner of cornbread, roasted venison, and green watercress gathered from below the spring.†   (source)
  • They camped beside Evermelt, feasting on venison and enjoying a much-needed and well-deserved rest in the comfort of the warming vapors.†   (source)
  • There's to be a haunch of venison, she says, a brace of stuffed geese sauced with mulberries, and—"†   (source)
  • "Venison," he declared, mentally lifting the animal through the air toward him without a second thought to the act, though telekinesis was a spell that hadn't even been in the considerable repertoire of Morkai the Red, Kessell's sole teacher.†   (source)
  • As the sizzling venison was distributed, a train from the north came whistling through the dark and shrieked by them, shaking the earth.†   (source)
  • Roran removed a ragged half of sourdough bread from his bags, then paused and, with a hint of a smile, said, "Wouldn't you rather have some venison?†   (source)
  • There were great loaves of brown bread, mounds of turnips and sweetcorn and pease, immense hams and roast geese and trenchers dripping full of venison stewed with beer and barley.†   (source)
  • Three days later, when I saw him again, he offered me a haunch of venison and a pot of caribou tongues.†   (source)
  • They supped that night on a venison stew made from a scrawny hart that a scout called Benjicot Branch had brought down.†   (source)
  • They were eating cold venison, a kind of food which Jill had never tasted before, and she was liking it.†   (source)
  • We had roast venison and fried catfish and stewed squirrel and blackeyed peas and cornbread and flour gravy and butter and wild honey and hog-plum jelly and fresh buttermilk.†   (source)
  • For their labor they were given some cuts of venison, and the rest was left for the soldiers in Alessandro's car, with the Persian in charge of both cooking and rationing.†   (source)
  • There were great joints of aurochs roasted with leeks, venison pies chunky with carrots, bacon, and mushrooms, mutton chops sauced in honey and cloves, savory duck, peppered boar, goose, skewers of pigeon and capon, beef-and-barley stew, cold fruit soup.†   (source)
  • Gonna fill up that freezer with venison, long as I can get far enough up in those hills— meaning pray we don't get early snow.†   (source)
  • As they did their count, Jon peeled the glove off his left hand and touched the nearest haunch of venison.†   (source)
  • Sides of venison turned on spits rotating over dunes of red coals, and by the side of an ice-making machine a huge zinc tub was filled with crushed ice and jeroboams of champagne.†   (source)
  • For filling the freezer with venison once a year …. a handgun for protection, and a scattergun—for varmints.†   (source)
  • Alessandro started his attack on a sizzling slab of venison that had been placed before him by a sweating cadet who had also ladled out an enormous amount of roasted potatoes and vegetables.†   (source)
  • As the waiters carved up sides of venison and served vegetables and roasted potatoes from copper salvers, the village orchestra of Vols trooped into the room and took up position in front of a glowing tile stove as high as the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The boy was cooking venison and the old man propped against his saddle muttering over a Bible when Call walked in with his pistol drawn.†   (source)
  • Call was faced with more meats than he had seen on one table since he could remember: beefsteak and pork chops, chicken and venison, and a stew that appeared to contain squirrel and various less familiar meats.†   (source)
  • There were turkeys and geese and peacocks, there were boars' heads and sides of venison, there were pies shaped like ships under full sail or like dragons and elephants, there were ice puddings and bright lobsters and gleaming salmon, there were nuts and grapes, pineapples and peaches, pomegranates and melons and tomatoes.†   (source)
  • The iron straps rattled around in the box, and a leg of venison, wrapped in wet burlap to keep it cool, jumped around on top of the iron.†   (source)
  • The recipes, the herbs, the wine, the preparation that goes into a good venison dish would make an old shoe a gourmet's delight.†   (source)
  • Thinking of the soggy, half-cooked pancakes he had eaten today, his mouth watered at the very thought of venison.†   (source)
  • Thinking of venison, his mind had gone about cataloguing the sitting room and his mind nudged him, saying, "Hey, there's something wrong here--something strange.†   (source)
  • He chopped dry wood from the dead pine, built up his fire, cut a slice of venison and set it to cook.†   (source)
  • Rarely did two men meet, or three stand in a bar, or a dozen gnaw tough venison in camp, that the valley's future, paralyzing in its grandeur, did not come up, not as conjecture but as a certainty.†   (source)
  • He set coffee to cook, opened the packet of cooked venison and put a slice in the frying pan to warm up.†   (source)
  • She likes a venison stew.†   (source)
  • The venison tasted good after so much fish, and the women told the men to go up on Horse Mountain and get more deer and they would dry it, the old way, for winter.†   (source)
  • I'll take the venison in.†   (source)
  • But before he cut one pole for the lodge he set up a drying rack, sliced the venison into thin strips and hung it to cure in the smoke and slow heat of a smudged fire.†   (source)
  • He looked at the venison hanging in the tree, more than half the loin he had taken from the doe, and he took it down and left it on the ground, where the carrion eaters would soon dispose of it.†   (source)
  • He made a quick breakfast, stowed the remaining venison in a small pack, put everything else except his knife and rifle under the tarp, and went back to where he had left the trail yesterday.†   (source)
  • For their midday meal they had cold venison pattie, with mead, as did everybody else.†   (source)
  • What did it matter if he did chase himself a bit of venison now and then?†   (source)
  • Before they could shout in praise of the shot, however, a dreadful wail from Bilbo put all thoughts of venison out of their minds.†   (source)
  • Until Scarlett was able to furnish Aunt Pitty's house as it had been before the war and serve her guests good wine and juleps and baked ham and cold haunches of venison, she had no intention of having guests in her house—especially prominent guests, such as Melanie had.†   (source)
  • He hurried to the rescue, and got into the pueblo with a pack of venison meat just before the storm broke.†   (source)
  • Years later the town learned that he had come all the way from Martinique on Sutpen's bare promise and lived for two years on venison cooked over a camp fire, in an unfloored tent made of the wagon hood, before he so much as saw any color or shape of pay.†   (source)
  • Then the Boss spied a fellow at the far end of the soda fountain, a tall, gaunt-shanked, malarial, leather-faced side of jerked venison, wearing jean pants and a brace of mustaches hanging off the kind of face you see in photographs of General Forrest's cavalrymen, and the Boss started toward him and put out his hand.†   (source)
  • …then too) brought some champagne and some of the others brought whiskey and they began to gather out there a little after sundown, at his house that didn't even have walls yet, that wasn't anything yet but some lines of bricks sunk into the ground but that was all right because they didn't go to bed anyhow, Grandfather said, they just sat around the fire with the champagne and the whiskey and a quarter of the last venison he had killed, and about midnight the man with the dogs came.†   (source)
  • There had been boar's head and venison and pork and beef and mutton and capons—but no turkey, because this bird had not yet been invented.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Robin, when they had wakened and eaten the breakfast of. bread and cold venison which they had brought with them, "you will have to love us and leave us, Kay.†   (source)
  • It smelt of oatmeal, ham, smoked salmon, dried cod, onions, shark oil, pickled herrings in tubs, hemp, maize, hen's fluff, sailcloth, milk—the butter was churned there on Thursdays—seasoning pine wood, apples, herbs drying, fish glue and varnish used by the fletcher, spices from overseas, dead rat in trap, venison, seaweed, wood shavings, litter of kittens, fleeces from the mountain sheep not yet sold, and the pungent smell of tar.†   (source)
  • …cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en galentine, oysters in civey, eels in sorre, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed, cockin-tryce, goose in hoggepotte, venison in frumenty, hens in brewet, roast squirrels, haggis, capon-neck pudding, garbage, tripe, blaundesorye, caboges, buttered worts, apple mousse, gingerbread, fruit tart, blancmange, quinces in comfit, stil-ton cheese, and causs boby.†   (source)
  • The diet of buffalo steak was varied by venison and antelope meat, and once with wild turkey.†   (source)
  • Darkness had about set in when Roberts came over to Joan, carrying bread, coffee, and venison.†   (source)
  • Two of this group asked him to bring in some turkey or venison; another wanted to hunt with him.†   (source)
  • Piute will get deer, or you may shoot them yourself; eat all the venison you can.†   (source)
  • There were also cooked meat and both jerked venison and buffalo.†   (source)
  • He helped her to portions of bread, venison and gravy, and a cup of coffee.†   (source)
  • "We won't have venison steak off him, that's certain," remarked Dale, dryly.†   (source)
  • His winter supply of venison had not yet been laid in.†   (source)
  • —half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!†   (source)
  • Much better than those Papuan Islands where we ran into more savages than venison!†   (source)
  • The venison was roasted to a turn—and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch.†   (source)
  • I'll send them venison, poultry; I'll have myself bled, if need be.†   (source)
  • There, go you all on the rock, and I will bring up the Mohicans with the venison.†   (source)
  • And, moreover, venison can hardly be called in season now, and we do not want for food.†   (source)
  • "Not much, maybe," said Hiram; "but you sometimes trade in venison.†   (source)
  • You'll find a neck of venison, and no questions asked."†   (source)
  • That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.†   (source)
  • Let my young men carry venison into his lodges.†   (source)
  • Besides, it wouldn't pain me to eat a couple slices of fresh venison!"†   (source)
  • You shall eat of our venison, and then we must separate.†   (source)
  • The daughter of Munro would draw his water, hoe his corn, and cook his venison.†   (source)
  • "Excepting moonlight nights, when the venison is in season," said his guest.†   (source)
  • I see traces of the turtle soup, and venison, and gold spoon in this.†   (source)
  • "The King of Sherwood," he said, "grudges his venison and his wine-flask to the King of England?†   (source)
  • Do they wish to cook the venison, and not to kill it.†   (source)
  • That buck was out of season, and who wishes to kill venison out of season.†   (source)
  • "Sartain; an't there venison here, or didn't you kill a buck?"†   (source)
  • Tell the light-hair, that she too may stay in the lodge of a brave, and eat of his venison.†   (source)
  • I will lead back with me this great hunter, of whom I have need to keep my house in venison.†   (source)
  • I'll bet a saddle of venison against a gray squirrel that they are better in a week.†   (source)
  • But you'll send me the venison; and the deuce is in it, but I make a good story about its death."†   (source)
  • Marmaduke; "and much more deeply am I indebted to thee than for this piece of venison.†   (source)
  • The party soon forgot its disappointment, however, and we sat down, not to venison, but to a tamer feast of veal and roast pig.†   (source)
  • What with the brandy and the venison, a strange heaviness had come over me; and I had scarce lain down upon the bed before I fell into a kind of trance, in which I continued almost the whole time of our stay in the Cage.†   (source)
  • In a few moments a fire was burning brightly, water was boiling, pots were steaming, the odor of venison permeated the cool air.†   (source)
  • Edward answers by fresh assurances of secrecy, and again urges on him the necessity of procuring some venison.†   (source)
  • It tasted something as I should conceive a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have tasted, supposing him to have been killed the first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.†   (source)
  • You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do!'†   (source)
  • When I had none, I used to look at a venison shop in Fleet Street; or I have strolled, at such a time, as far as Covent Garden Market, and stared at the pineapples.†   (source)
  • If any volume could have manifested its essential wisdom in the mode suggested, it would certainly have been the one now in Hepzibah's hand; and the kitchen, in such an event, would forthwith have streamed with the fragrance of venison, turkeys, capons, larded partridges, puddings, cakes, and Christmas pies, in all manner of elaborate mixture and concoction.†   (source)
  • Even some of the lads, who never tasted venison except as poachers at home, turn up their noses at the fattest haunches that we get here.†   (source)
  • The very name of venison quickens the blood of the cur;—did you ever take an animal in that fashion, on the long leap?†   (source)
  • The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about "my friend such a one."†   (source)
  • Mutes at funerals could not look more glum than the domestics of Mr. Osborne The neck of venison of which he had invited Dobbin to partake, was carved by him in perfect silence; but his own share went away almost untasted, though he drank much, and the butler assiduously filled his glass.†   (source)
  • Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour, and no morsel could have been too savage for me.†   (source)
  • A few dollars will pay for the venison; but what will requite me for the lost honor of a buck's tail in my cap?†   (source)
  • Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,—bank stock and doubloons,[96] venison and champagne?†   (source)
  • Confound her, I couldn't make her see that sudden passion is an extenuating circumstance in the killing of venison—or of a person—so I gave it up and let her sulk it out.†   (source)
  • I took a step, and lo, away it scud with an elastic spring over the snow-crust, straightening its body and its limbs into graceful length, and soon put the forest between me and itself—the wild free venison, asserting its vigor and the dignity of Nature.†   (source)
  • Let them send their arrows and their guns to the Wyandots; they shall have venison to eat, and corn to hoe.†   (source)
  • Venison is well enough for your inland sailors, but we of the ocean like a little of that which we understand.†   (source)
  • But I was interested in the preservation of the venison and the vert more than the hunters or woodchoppers, and as much as though I had been the Lord Warden himself; and if any part was burned, though I burned it myself by accident, I grieved with a grief that lasted longer and was more inconsolable than that of the proprietors; nay, I grieved when it was cut down by the proprietors themselves.†   (source)
  • I'm not saying fish aren't good for you, but we mustn't overdo 'em, and a slice of fresh venison grilled over live coals will be a nice change from our standard fare."†   (source)
  • Thus Mrs. Bute sent guinea-fowls, and some remarkably fine cauliflowers, and a pretty purse or pincushion worked by her darling girls, who begged to keep a LITTLE place in the recollection of their dear aunt, while Mr. Pitt sent peaches and grapes and venison from the Hall.†   (source)
  • Now, they're not a-going — none of 'em — ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.†   (source)
  • This is not such a supper as a major of the Royal Americans has a right to expect, but I've known stout detachments of the corps glad to eat their venison raw, and without a relish, too*.†   (source)
  • "I understand thee," said the King, "and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.†   (source)
  • "Master is right," Conseil replied, "and I propose that we set aside three places in our longboat: one for fruit, another for vegetables, and a third for venison, of which I still haven't glimpsed the tiniest specimen."†   (source)
  • Well, if we have no heather and oatmeal in this region, we have venison for the killing of it and salmon as plenty as at Berwick-upon-Tweed.†   (source)
  • I was merely about to say that I find even the Scotch soldiers like venison and birds quite as well as pork, when they are difficult to be had.†   (source)
  • It was pleasant to see the venison, and wild ducks, and geese, and bear's meat, that hung in his lodge in winter.†   (source)
  • That while he tendered to Alice the gourd of sweet water, and the venison in a trencher, neatly carved from the knot of the pepperidge, with sufficient courtesy, in performing the same offices to her sister, his dark eye lingered on her rich, speaking countenance.†   (source)
  • "Of hornets?" said De Bracy; "of stingless drones rather; a band of lazy knaves, who take to the wood, and destroy the venison rather than labour for their maintenance."†   (source)
  • He means turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, and that he wants to be set up with a coach and six.†   (source)
  • A thief, who only steals from women; a Red-skin, who is not brave; a hunter, that begs for his venison.†   (source)
  • Two candles are placed on a table, white bread and baked pasties are displayed by the light, besides choice of venison, both salt and fresh, from which they select collops.†   (source)
  • Ah's me! many is the day that the Sarpent, there, and I have passed happily among the streams, living on venison, salmon, and trout without thought of a Mingo or a scalp!†   (source)
  • "It would be cruel to kill the poor deer," she said, "in this world, or any other, when you don't want their venison, or their skins.†   (source)
  • Twenty times the gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds—a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.†   (source)
  • So, old woman, you can give us a few steaks of the venison, and then we will sleep on the day's work."†   (source)
  • Tachechana, the pride of the Sioux girls, shall cook his venison, and many braves will look at him with longing minds.†   (source)
  • If venison, or bear's meat, or even birds and fish, should ever be scarce in our cabin, it would be more likely to be owing to natur' and Providence than to any fault of mine.†   (source)
  • Come, shall we go and kill us venison?†   (source)
  • Not that I care for the law; but the venison is lean now, and the dumb things run the flesh off their own bones for no good.†   (source)
  • Thou shalt not want a cup of wine and a collop of venison the while; and if thou lovest woodcraft, thou shalt see such as your north country never witnessed.†   (source)
  • I know nothing of ports and anchors; but there is a direful Mingo trail within a hundred yards of this very spot, and as fresh as venison without salt.†   (source)
  • "Holloa! old Eester;" shouted the well-known voice of her husband, from the plain beneath; "ar' you keeping your junkets, while we are finding you in venison and buffaloe beef?†   (source)
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