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Burnett

[ ber-net ]

noun

  1. Frances Hodg·son [hoj, -s, uh, n], 1849–1924, U.S. novelist, born in England.


Burnett

/ bɜːˈnɛt /

noun

  1. BurnettFrances Hodgson18491924MUSEnglishWRITING: novelist Frances Hodgson (ˈhɒdʒsən). 1849–1924, US novelist, born in England; author of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) and The Secret Garden (1911)


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Ultimately, Burnett said, labels will empower consumers to measure carbon like calories.

When she’s not hyping weed, Burnett does work with breathwork studio Frequency and the AfroPunk festival.

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Burnett said the idea was well received by other community leaders after Hilton presented it in a recent meeting.

At some point, show creator Mark Burnett made the diabolical decision to extend the show to 120 minutes.

Others who will join the rotation include Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach, and Carol Burnett.

Burnett told the men in the audience that they should always listen to their wife.

“Miraculously,” Burnett said, the movie would have a wide national release in 3,000 theaters.

Burnett did not say that the series was predictably rejected by major networks, eventually landing on the History Channel.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is one of the most charming among American writers.

Burnett evidently went away from Lawrence with a good opinion of this family of Yankee abolitionists, and Bro.

Burnett at last seemed to think that matters were growing serious, and made a signal to the drivers of the carts to push forward.

What a pity these Frenchmen do not catch hold of a comet, and return to the good old geological dramas of Burnett and Whiston.

They had proceeded some distance, when, shading his eyes with his hand, Mr Burnett looked out eagerly ahead.

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