c & b
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And, in case you are wondering, the answers are b, c, b, a.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2013
The figure represents the back of the pigeon; and the direction of the knife is in the line c, b, by a, if done the last way.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
The lines rhyme together a, b, a, b, b, c, b, c, in each stanza and in the envoy b, c, b, c.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio
The inclination of this slope, or angle c b d; 5.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
It consists of nine lines—a a b c c b d d b, or three rhyming pairs alternating with the rhyming third, sixth and ninth lines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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