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  • To inflict an almost-dead-anyway ricket-boned octogenarian neighbor with a sudden and painful overnight demise, before Goatmeal (tm), you would have to kill an entire goat just to blend a few ounces of butchered and dissolved goat sediment, whereas with Goatmeal, you just used a tablespoon instead of a cupful.

    Happy Birthday, Ray Charles! Bill Crider 2007

  • Steps led up from the river to a small ricket in the arch which gave entrance into the Tower.

    In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Lucy Foster Madison 1898

  • Why should we attempt to cure anemia with inorganic iron, hyperacidity of the stomach with baking soda, swollen glands with iodine, the itch with sulphur, ricket conditions in infants with lime water, etc., when these mineral elements are contained in abundance and in live, organic form in fruits and vegetables, herbs and in the vitochemical remedies?

    Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893

  • Never mind that the pair had been at loggerheads through the media for years, or Clough had just made an almighty ricket of taking over from Revie at Elland Road.

    The Guardian World News Scott Murray 2011

  • You have got to be kidding my friend, if you had announced you owned the Taj Mahal it still wouldn't have made up for that terrible ricket.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • A slight fumble by Umar Akmal at backward point (to be honest, the fluorescent green sun cream on your lips is going to make it difficult for you to hide if you drop a ricket in the field, Umar) allows Haddin a single.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • "Supporters nowadays will always have a pop at the errors and as a keeper you make a ricket and you've lost a goal."

    TEAMtalk Football News 2010

  • Then Konchesky makes a terrible ricket of a turn on the other wing, Cavani breaking clear down the right and delivering a dreadful cross.

    The Guardian World News Scott Murray 2010

  • Just what was required to unwind after a successful day at work. ricket has become a glamorous sport ever since Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Preity Zinta became part of the cricketing circle with the birth of the IPL.

    rediff.com 2010

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