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  • Rather than settling for the £12 corner-shop model like everyone else, his father thoughtfully responded with a £450 BB version of an Israeli Tavor bullpup assault rifle with red-spot laser sights?

    We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

  • The same farmer had seen, three years previous, a negro who had been bitten upon the ankle by a "red-spot" and who suffered from diminishingly severe spasmodic attacks for three weeks.

    The Poison Bugaboo 1910

  • Another bird, whose great-grandparents were a white trumpeter, a white fantail, a white red-spot, a red runt, and a blue pouter, was slaty-blue and chequered exactly like a dovecot-pigeon.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • Initial inquiries indicated red-spot disease, found along Australia's east coast, and a parasite may be responsible for sickening the fish.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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